IMDb plot summary: Dirty cop, Mike Brennan thinks he got away with murder. But during a routine Q&A, the righteous assistant DA finds a clue that sets them both on a collision course.
Directed by Sidney Lumet. Starring Nick Nolte, Timothy Hutton, Armand Assante, and Patrick O'Neal.
Sidney Lumet is no stranger to stories about corruption in law enforcement, having tackled it in other films like Serpico and Prince of the City. This time around he draws some interesting connections between it and rampant racism, looking at how the racial tensions in the city feed into the violence of it. Like most of Lumet's crime movies, I found myself thinking at the beginning, "All right, this is the one where it's going to feel like your typical crime film," only for it to capture my interest partway through. There's a scene toward the end where one of our antagonists is following our protagonists without their knowledge, and I found myself genuinely tensing up as the scene played out. It ends on a less hopeful note than some of his earlier films, but it's still interesting to watch Lumet tell and re-tell the same story through slightly different lenses.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Q & A < The Cutting Edge
Q & A > A Prairie Home Companion
Q & A > Flypaper
Q & A > Thank You for Smoking
Q & A > Shame (1968)
Q & A > Pitch Perfect 2
Q & A > Elle
Q & A < Malcolm X
Q & A < Nine Queens
Q & A > Hellboy
Q & A < The Last Castle
Final spot: #1762 out of 3477, or 49%.
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