Keenan Ivory Wayans stars as an ex-cop whose unit was killed. Now he is a broke PI with Jada Pinkett-Smith as his girl Friday. Wayans is hired by DEA agent Charles S. Dutton to track down Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Wayans' ex-lover, and the ex-lover of dead drug kingpin Andrew Divoff. But Divoff is not dead, and Dutton is working with him.
It hits every cliche in 1990s 'tec movies, and not in a good way. This being Wayans, I came in expecting to see some funny sequences, but if it is intended as a burlesque of the form, it went past me without stopping for more than a chuckle; even the bit in which Wayans is trying to get information out of Gary Carlos Cervantes and they run into a White Power group lacks any sense of irony. As a straight action movie, it stretches credulity without ever quite being absurd. The fight sequences are edited in tiny clips to make them work; and while the two women are very attractive, their cat fight doesn't have any oomph due to the editing.
It hits every cliche in 1990s 'tec movies, and not in a good way. This being Wayans, I came in expecting to see some funny sequences, but if it is intended as a burlesque of the form, it went past me without stopping for more than a chuckle; even the bit in which Wayans is trying to get information out of Gary Carlos Cervantes and they run into a White Power group lacks any sense of irony. As a straight action movie, it stretches credulity without ever quite being absurd. The fight sequences are edited in tiny clips to make them work; and while the two women are very attractive, their cat fight doesn't have any oomph due to the editing.