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Perhaps most surprising is how slight it feels.

This is about car/motorbike chases, ruthless corruption at the highest level, a focused defense of one man’s pursuit of truth and ... the hint of romance.

At turns funny, violent, bitter and over the top, it's a curious little fable about boredom, risk-taking, and the frustration experienced by trained fighters in peacetime.

Where the film succeeds beyond expectation is in its depiction of the kids and how the tribal lines are drawn in areas of this city where drive-bys are as common as parking tickets.

Waugh understands that a blast wave shattering windows on a suburban street is a far more powerful image than yet another shot of the White House exploding.

Well aimed at its target audience.

The references are messy, the gestures grand.

Spacey gives a remarkable performance.

The parallel stories of the two serial killers exponentially increase the tension of the whole and this unrelenting film never lets the audience relax.

There have been great police corruption movies - Sidney Lumet's Q&A comes to mind - but usually they are more subtle than this.

The star is O'Donnell. As good as he is, he has the look of a lad on a gap year rather than the charismatic leader who might carry this through.

Coppola demonstrates remarkable confidence.

In the end I found myself won over by the charm of this film's various creative idiosyncrasies and by the charisma of Brolin’s performance.