Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

Console best movie i've ever seen.

Onlinewsma Absolutely Brilliant!

generationofswine I haven't seen this before.A cop with a dead partner, sure, I have seen that. A scumbag FBI agent, yeah, I've seen that too. I've also seen a widow that want's revenge.BUT, from there it veers off and we have a group of skinhead white supremacists on a racist rampage and you have Mr. Miami Vice himself, in 1989, dressed like could care less about how he looks and, I haven't seen that before either.The plot takes you from LA to small town America with all the shoot outs in between. The cop is a screw up and one that seems to only get by because he's seen it all before, not because he is particularly good at what he does.It all boils down to a unique film and one that is exceptionally well put together.The only thing that would make it a better film, would make it more unique, is if the white supremacists were as deeply and disturbingly family orientated as they are in the documentaries about the KKK. But, instead, you have them as the cliched psychopaths, which is somehow LESS disturbing.But, it's a small cliche for a movie that you likely haven't seen before and certainly won't see again, at least not without the protagonist being a super buff ex-Navy SEAL with all the special effects to back it up.

fyhubb-01476 Made in 1989, it was ahead of it's time though slightly cliché. Filmed with a mixture of varied cast, this was a very good reflection of a real life story, where Hollywood was not trying to create a sterile environment and the characters were normal every day people with real issues that were bouncing off of each other. Some of the story line was predictable with Don Johnson sticking to his Miami Vice sense of humour but with an on-going turbulent divorce and a career dependent on a successful case, the other actors did not make it easy for Jerry Beck when his alcoholism started effecting his professionalism. Throughout the film the villains are always one step ahead, with White supremacy and anti-social behavioural traits quite accurate to life situations and personal beliefs,including religious denominations of cult Christianity, creating a network of deceit. Set in a big city leading across small towns across USA, brings out the sinister nature of true organised crime and involves the police, FBI and local sheriff's departments working with Don Johnson's Homocide department in an inhibitory way, until a crack unit enforces his efforts. Conflicts throughout were personal and not exaggerated, and understandably psychological and contextualised accurately.

glinskym Don Johnson is pretty decent in this (and I'm a fan), though you could see the whole idea was to take the Crockett character from Miami Vice and make him a down-and-outer, to take away all the expensive trappings he had on Miami Vice.The biggest plot hole is that the bad guy kills a cop at the beginning of the movie, pretty much on Christmas Eve. Yet there is no big mobilization of the LA police force to catch the killer, just Beck going after him alone. In every other movie I've ever seen, and pretty much in real life, if a cop is killed in cold blood like this character was, every cop is going to be after the killer.Then, when the rural OK sheriff's cars are shot up with automatic weapons, and the downtown is blown up in a huge shootout with the bad guys, again, no-one really seems to interested. Not the LA police force, not the FBI that much. Usually these kind of egregious acts of violence get pretty big play in the media and with law enforcement types. So that whole premise was rather hard to swallow, although it says it's based on a true story.Interesting cameo by the porno star Ron Jeremy as one of the bikers. Several of the cast were on Miami Vice at one time or another.

Ddey65 From World War 2 through the fall of the Soviet Union, communism has been a genuine threat, but two things made the threat seem like an absolute joke; 1)Bad "Red Scare" movies of the 1950's, and 2)One exploitive Senator named Joseph McCarthy. Since the 1960's, people have used these incidents to dismiss the threat and everything connected to America's effort to fighting it. DEAD-BANG is a reminder of the first of these problems, only this Don Johnson movie attacks the far-right instead of the far-left.Don Johnson plays Jerry Beck, a Los Angeles cop investigating a murder of both a black convenience store owner, and a cop who tried to stop the people who killed him. Soon enough, he finds that the people who killed them are much worse than a bunch of two-bit losers who dress in Nazi uniforms and paraphernalia in order to feel good about themselves. But what does Beck find when he investigates a murder with racial overtones? An uncooperative police department that thinks he's losing his marbles, an uptight Born-Again Christian FBI man(William Forsythe), a police psychiatrist(Michael Jeter) who he gets into a fight with over the fact that he looked like Woody Allen, a rural Oklahoma sheriff's(William Traylor) depot that hasn't changed since 1965, a local church that's a disguised version of the World Church of the Creator, with ties to a military compound that's obviously a disguised version of the Aryan Nations.The fact that this movie slams white supremacy, yet almost all the black cops get killed fighting the right-wing militia, doesn't really say much for it. Another thing that bothers me is that Johnson's character frequently refers to the car driven by the neo-Nazis as a "maroon Ford station wagon." Perhaps if he tried looking for a maroon PONTIAC station wagon, which was the actual make of the car, he might improve his chance of finding the culprits. I can't recommend it entirely, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have something going for it.