david mamet be a very interesting and a very un equal director . his first movie house of game be the one i like best and and it set a series of film with character whose perspective of life change a they get into complicate situation and and so do the perspective of the viewer . so be homicide which from the title try to set the mind of the viewer to the usual crime drama . the principal character be two cop and one jewish and one irish who deal with a racially charge area . the murder of an old jewish shop owner who prove to be an ancient veteran of the israeli independence war trigger the jewish identity in the mind and heart of the jewish detective . this be be the flaw of the film be the more obvious . the process of awaken be theatrical and hard to believe and the group of jewish militant be operatic and and the way the detective eventually walk to the final violent confrontation be pathetic . the end of the film itself be mamet like smart and but disappoints from a human emotional perspective . joe mantegna and william macy give strong performance and but the flaw of the story be too evident to be easily compensate .