Directed by relative newcomer Antoine Fuqua, the energetic pace of this gritty thriller is relentless as as good battles evil and power becomes pitiable.
These pitiable verbal assaults made him more than just a portlier, crasser Henny Youngman, though; the famous Youngman quip «Take my wife, please,» became, in Dangerfield's hands, «During sex my girlfriend always wants to talk to me.