Dirty (2005)

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Touches You

Such a frustrating disappointment

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Cuba Gooding Jr. and Clifton Collins Jr. heading a cast that includes Keith David and Cole Hauser? What could go wrong? Dirty follows Cuba and Clifton, playing dirty undercover cops that steal, harass white people, do drugs, and swear, yep, pretty much what Denzel did in Training Day. Keith David and Cole Hauser play their oblivious superiors.This was such an obvious knockoff of Training Day...everything about this film breathed it. Cuba can't live up to the ironic class that Denzel had, and Clifton, while a very good actor, has nothing on Ethan Hawke.The lines were horribly clichéd, the plot was aimless and difficult...it only gets 3 stars because I'm a fan of this cast, despite their horrible agents.See Training Day-for the first time or again-before you see Dirty.

The Ramparts Scandal of the 1990s entailed L.A. gang members infiltrating the police department, violently shaking down fellow gang-bangers, then, in perjured testimony after their stupidity busted wide open the whole mess, ruined the careers of honest cops in L.A.P.D.'s gang units. As final salt in the wound, taxpayers were soaked for millions in court settlements to the put-upon homies that got rough treatment from these hoods in blue.The real villains of the piece were not-well-thought-through outreach projects to recruit more inner-city youth into the city's police force. This was yet another brainstorm of liberal social engineers far removed from the detritus wrought by their brilliance.This movie, inspired by Ramparts, takes those facts and corkscrews them 180 degrees. The gangstas are the cops. All cops. The real villain is the SYSTEM, maaaaaaan.This tired, hackneyed tripe represents the warped mindset of Hollywood's establishment today. It's a weak-tea Frankfurt School indictment of class, race, capital, injustice... (yaaaawn). I think one of the great injustices in this country today that so much of our media, so much of our political arena, is fabricated by these tapas-bar revolutionaries from the mean streets of Malibu, Brentwood and Beverly Hills. Decades ago, "Dirty" would be hailed as wonderfully subversive by reviewers feasting on the bounty of the very system they claim to despise. It's as subversive as "Dancing With the Stars". This is the only political viewpoint we get - in any movie or documentary produced in this country.In that respect, this movie is similar to "Crash", that other self-celebration of hypocritical Lefty gibberish. In fact, the scene in which Gooding Jr. hassles a middle-class white couple was almost straight-lifted a few years later for "Crash", with the racial components reversed.One reviewer here proposed "it's easy to behave morally in a sheltered, safe, middle-class environment." Well, it's easier not to become murderous animals in that kind of environment - that's for sure. And, evidently, it's a lot easier to develop a morality far removed from the real world by typing out scripts in tony neighborhoods with gates, guards, income levels in the stratosphere and worldviews in Never-Never Land.

A really strong performance from Clifton Collins Jr, combined with an excellent bad cop come good cop story from Chris Fisher and Gil Reavill with excellent acting from Cuba and Clifton, really great chemistry between them both, really solid acting made this film a knock-out, a really good compliment to films like training day. I would highly recommend this film if you enjoyed training day like me. Some great camera angles with the action scenes contributed towards some great tension and atmosphere, very enjoyable with some great faces like Wyclef Jean, Cole Hauser, Tory Kittles, Khleo Thomas, and Keith David to top it off. Rent it or buy it now! top marks. I hope cuba Forgets films like snowdogs, and continues with films like this and End Game, easily his best film since boyz n the hood.

This is an amazingly bad film. My wife and I, having been forced to chose between a Julia Robert's flick called Closure, opted for this shoot 'em up cops and robber movie instead thinking since it's got Cuba Gooding Jr. how bad could it be. Turns out that even with CGJ in it, Dirty still bombs bigger than Hiroshima.The only thing challenging about this movie, besides not fast forwarding right through it, is trying to count how many times the words 'f***', 'motherf***er','hommie', and 's***' are used. It seems that these are about all the words necessary in order for Chris Fisher to construct a scene. For example...'Yo you're a motherf***er for f***ing my s*** up, man. Hommie, I ought cap your f***ing ass you mother motherf***er' - a horrible sentence yet one found in various configurations countless times throughout Dirty.Besides the profanities - which I might mention I have no problem with in general as long as they're used to accentuate a point - the other problem I had with Dirty was the plastic characters.I also loved the scene with the drug dealing Canadian Hells Angels - who are easily identified because they're carrying...hockey sticks (!) and uttering the word 'eh' every second they get.Overall, this movie was a complete tomato and definitely not worth a penny. Spare yourself the agony of watching Dirty and see Ishtar instead. You'll be better off in the long run!