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Ernest Borgnine plays Joe as a dedicated officer determined to win over the largely Sicilian immigrant population of his neighborhood, a group that brought its mistrust of the police with them from the old country, where police corruption was rampant.
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Not in Mexico, where neighbouring state Michoacan has become a battleground, with armed vigilantes battling the Knights Templar drug cartel and a federal investigation into the possible corruption of more than 1,200 local police officers.
Some intriguing ideas are stranded by an overarching concept that severely strains credibility in this low - budget drama that takes place in a small town in northern California, where an exiled Afghan journalist (Dominic Rains) gets a job as a freelance crime reporter and settles with a local police officer (Melissa Leo)-- the mother of a friend — allowing him to experience firsthand the town's surprisingly extensive web of corruption and violence.
In a sense, the film is the anti-Departed, quietly insisting on an authenticity of location that is far more crucial here than in Martin Scorsese's New Yorker's love - letter to Boston, where Beantown provides only a convenient situs of crime and police corruption appropriate toa transplanted Hong Kong action film.
Indeed, the movie picks up right where the first film left off and follows Rama (Iko Uwais) as he goes undercover and infiltrates the ranks of a ruthless Jakarta crime syndicate in order to protect his family and uncover the corruption in his own police force.
The narrative trips itself up somewhat with a messy third act that falls into predictable realms of police corruption and overly convoluted, poorly explained schemes to benefit the hierarchy while threatening the lives of our main characters (for some reason) but the lack of coherency can't get in the way of Creevy's skill for adrenaline - fueled action filmmaking and that is where Punch really delivers.
Written and directed by Gareth Evans, the action sequel picks up right where the first film left off and follows Rama (Iko Uwais) as he goes undercover and infiltrates the ranks of a ruthless Jakarta crime syndicate in order to protect his family and uncover the corruption in his own police force.
Gist: Shot in various locations outside the city of Guanajuato, where most citizens work for an automobile assembly plant or the local drug cartel, Heli is confronted with police corruption, drug trafficking, sexual exploitation, love, guilt and revenge in the search for his father who has mysteriously disappeared.
«The Raid 2 starts where the first film ended, with Uwais» character going undercover and infiltrating the ranks of a ruthless Jakarta crime syndicate in order to protect his family and uncover the corruption in his own police force.»
The Raid 2 / Indonesia (Director and screenwriter: Gareth Evans)-- Picking up where the first film left off, The Raid 2 follows Rama as he goes undercover and infiltrates the ranks of a ruthless Jakarta crime syndicate in order to protect his family and expose the corruption in his own police force.
The situation is somewhat like police policing police, where civilian oversight is understood to offset the potential for corruption.
Additionally, Mr. Levy worked with the Official Corruption Unit, where he supervised a twenty member staff that included attorneys, State Police detectives and accountants.