Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson star in an action story full of elements that don't belong in a movie that deserves any credibility. Even the beginning has a long chase through subway tunnels when it seemed easier (and more efficient) to arrest the miscreants quietly in the first place. And there's something underhand about Wesley and Woody's transit police spending all day setting themselves up as drunken decoys to tempt jobless youths to pick their pockets. The film rambles on in fits and starts for far too long until we get to an exciting last 20 minutes when the boys, oppressed to breaking point by sadistic boss Robert Blake, decide to take on his money train themselves. Jennifer Lopez is the statutory curvaceous ever-lipsticked cop who comes between our heroes, who, in one of the film's few novel touches, play foster-brothers, with Woody the one whose gambling weakness puts them in need of money in the first place. Chris Cooper shows real menace as a sadist who likes torching booking clerks. A little extreme, but some people might think he has a point.

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