八十年代的恐怖电影《处刑在午夜》（10 to Midnight）中，外表不佳却颇具性格气概的老电影人查尔斯·布朗森在片中饰演一个警探，逮捕到一位专门辣手摧花的杀人犯，苦于没有证据，老查不得已设法编造证据，想送他进大牢，不料被穿帮，凶手放出来后，决定对老查的女儿下手以实行报复。为什么老查根本找不到凶手的罪证呢，原来凶手每次行凶前必把自己的衣服脱光，你想找到任何沾有血迹的衣服、裤子、鞋子，都难如登天。于是，反一号男主角吉恩·戴维斯在片中有一半的戏份都要光着身子。《处刑在午夜》在裸露尺度的把握上，真正做到了“男女平等”，你脱我也脱，像吉恩·戴维斯这种可以走偶像路线的男星，接拍《处刑在午夜》实在得不偿失，别说必须时不时的衣不蔽体，角色形象也负面到极点，从片子的票房来看，他也真是白忙了一场。可能从一开始，吸引他的只是赫赫有名的曾导过黑白原版《恐怖角》（Cape Fear）与《纳瓦隆大炮》（The Guns of Navarone）的大导演J·李·汤普森吧，可惜人有失手马有失蹄，这一回他可是脱得很没价值呐！
卡兰(布莱恩·奥斯丁·格林饰)带着一枚威力强大的古代十字护身符，带着他非凡的武器专家团队回来了，他要保护洛杉矶免受其最大的威胁——超级恶棍莫特(丹尼·特乔饰)和德拉戈(马努·因蒂莱米饰)。Callan将不得不与他曾经的死敌Gunnar (Vinnie Jones饰)联手，试图拯救这座城市。Tom Sizemore饰演侦探Nitti和Lou Ferrigno, DB Sweeney, Jeremy London和Eric Roberts饰演合同工。byyakubd.cc
Having witnessed his junkie father killed Russell Stevens grows up to become a policeman and make a difference. When he is offered an undercover job by Gerald Carver he accepts and begins to build a relationship with David Jason in order to get to the main dealers. However as he is forced to deal drugs and kill to keep his cover he finds the lines between cop and criminal being lost – is he a cop pretending to be a dealer or a dealer pretending to be a cop Larry (as he was then) Fishburne's first lead role was a typically dark vehicle. The story is the usual one of cop losing himself when undercover, however it manages to be more than that for most of the time. Co-written by Tolkin, who wrote The Player, this naturally has a nice cynical edge to it when it looks at the US's hypocritical approach to drug control and the political links between the street hustlers and the political high rollers who court respectability. The story does eventually settle into a traditional setting but even then it works well as a thriller. The multi-talented Bill Duke directs well with a gritty feel and a few nice touches. However several things are a bit iffy. For most of the film Fishburne's narrationvoice over is a bit like a cross between Apocalypse Now and Blade Runner – it comes across as a little too dark and heavy and also explains things like we can't figure it out ourselves. However once you get into the film it's not as big a deal. My main problem lies with the characters. Fishburne is excellent, a real model of underlying anger and violence, Goldblum is good but perhaps a little OTT on the yuppieviolence thing, but there's good support from Smith and Spin City's beautiful (and often underused – but not here) Victoria Dillard. However the two main white characters (Goldblum and Smith) are both smeared with racist insinuations – Smith appears to insult his black officers and doesn't care about the junkies, while Goldblum is fascinated about all things black and talks about them as wild beautiful beasts and loves having sex with black'. These things aren't a major problem, but with basically only two white characters in it, it's a little worrying that both are given that edge. However these are minor complaints that get lost with a good thriller. Fishburne excels and Duke delivers a story that is a good thriller but also has a jaded, subversive edge.
