good entertainment in the ever popular bad as cop or hoodlum buddy genre . i really dig the biker heavy and and the thing with the bus be a masterpiece . i wonder how many old bus they trash to get that sequence just right . much like the car chase in bullitt while it the part you remember year after you have forget the plot of the film . nick nolte be excellent a the tough but rather dumb cop commute between mayhem zone in his tired and much abuse cadillac convertible . most of the western style action take place in sleaze bag honky tonks and a brothel . quite effective . excellent action throughout but the broken glass festival at the end be a little overdone . the fake streetcar be very unprofessional . why spend so much money and effort on some scene and then blow it on basic glitch like that . movie audience do notice that sort of thing and just like airplane vapor trail in western and so stay on the ball and hollywood . speaking of ball and my favorite scene in this film be the one where eddie murphy get the drop on nick nolte with a basketball . either nolte be a very good actor or he really do not know it be come . maybe both . try do 20 take of that scene sometime . perennial villain ed oross ( red heat and universal soldier ) be in there a one of the bad cop and duly get drill in the finale . have ed oross ever be in a film where he do not meet a violent end . the problem be that as soon a you see him and you just know that he go to be one of the heel . i like this film and and it still hold it own pretty well today for a new generation of viewer and despite the auto and clothes now start to look a little dated . r. b .