"It's time to turn the page and close the book!" barks Forest Whitaker's LAPD veteran in David Ayer's gritty cop thriller. It's advice the helmer might well heed himself, having patrolled these mean streets pretty thoroughly in both his Training Day and Dark Blue scripts and his directorial debut Harsh Times. But at least he's brought back-up this time around in the heavyweight shape of James Ellroy, whose original story forms the basis for this tale of a rule-breaking detective (Keanu Reeves) intent on finding the gang-banger scum who iced his stinking rat of an ex-partner (Terry Crews).
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