Narc (2002)
Starring Jason Patric and Ray Liotta.
Directed by Joe Carnahan.
Kilgore rates it: 5 (out of 10)
IMDb rates it: 7.4 (out of 10)

What's better than a movie about a cop on the edge? How about a movie about two cops on the edge! Comes complete with: grubby facial hair, leather coats, cops on heroin, beating information out of informants, bullshit politics with the suits downtown who don't know what it's like to watch your buddy get shot and die in your arms, rain-slicked streets, grabbing shotguns out of the backseat of the undercover cop car, and this priceless line:

"I'm gonna find the bastards who murdered Mike, even if it means breaking every rule of procedure in the book."

You can probably write the rest of the screenplay on your lunch break.

Km. 0 (2000)
Starring a bunch of cursed Iberians.
Directed by Yolanda Garcia Serrano and Juan Luis Iborra.
Kilgore rates it: 5 (out of 10)
IMDb rates it: 7.7 (out of 10)

Wild coincidences, mistaken identities, silly subterfuges, happy hookers, long-lost loves, and fucking all come included in this bubbly Spanish comedy about 14 people whose lives intersect in wacky fashion at Kilometer Zero in La Plaza de Orinar in Madrid. Km. 0's good-natured tone carries it forward, but it bogs down near the end when the film waxes bizarre and fails to suspend disbelief. There's a nice twist that you won't see coming, though.

+posted by Lawrence @ 6/18/2004 01:08:00 PM