The city's finest are pursuing drug barons again, and this time it's a big one. Nationwide, in fact. It's the involvement of the US government that lends an edge to this well-made but basically routine tale of four cops who turn vigilante when a colleague is killed and their leader is thrown off the force while in pursuit of the druglords. The cops are quite nicely drawn by the star quartet - Brian Dennehy, Joe Pantoliano, Jeff Fahey and Bill Paxton - there's a lot of pseudo-smart dialogue, action in which the bullets fly thicker than the salty dialogue and an ironic sideplot in which the super-honest cops are tempted to head for Mexico when they come into possession of 23 million dollars' worth of tainted money. Overall, though, it's a by-the-numbers job. 'You're slipping over the edge,' Dennehy's superior (Henry Darrow) tells him. 'Well,' replies Dennehy, 'that's where we live. We're cops, remember.' It's an exchange that sums up the intrinsically familiar nature of the venture.

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