act and technical talent and inner city location setting and and the usual bladder burst length of celluloid be here waste on a plotline so old it age exceed the applicable cliche that even it grey whisker have grey whisker and which have be very badly hack into a new film tale of 90 urban america . plot the one about the two comrade who find the home turf awash in crime and and while take on the baddie and one get kill and so the other set out beyond the limit of the law to avenge his buddy by don a black mask and raid the hideout singlehanded and make off with the swag and and give all to the church save just enough to provide for his pal survive family . mortify and break baddie then deduce who be that masked man anyhow and go for the revenge and but end up get their just desserts instead and the hero rid off in the sunset . it be best do in movie a various robin hood and zorros and and lone ranger and but have also serve uncounted zero budget b western and costume actioners and serial and cop pic since fiction film first unspooled and particularly during the pre wwii period . here it be revamp for the 90 action crowd a a detective vs. druglords opus . appearance be that someone like this plot why else try to revive it again . but the lone screenwriter director couldn not really figure out anything original to do with it and so he opt for the approach of the old b and namely and just give it the most predictable and simplistic rendition from start to finish and then pad with extranea to stretch it to feature length a need . unfortunately and the old b do this way need padding to get 30 minute of story up to 60 minute of feature film and but now be need over an hour to reach the post modern 10 reel standard . bad still and filler at least use to be action material and but here most of it be soap opera and recur diversion into the private emotional relationship of the two detective and the hero and his wife and the hero plus wife and the victim three child ( who and a per tradition and they take in to raise a their own ) and while the advertising set u up for cop action . lot of cry and bond and bond and cry . yet this potentially move and engage stuff be just pad and stick in between very occasional action scene a long and loooonnnnnggg vignette which be then either just leave behind or just magically resolve represent e. g. and after 20 minute of closeup on the old girl first 48 hour of stage of grieve and we jumpcut to some action and and she be just next and last see frolic off on a tricycle at her new home and daddy loss just no long to be at issue and and the part just a suddenly become an extra . film be literally past 75 minute mark before lone mask avenger be introduce and the scene a howler and a the diminutive dick ( keaton ) ram through the crimelord door with one kick and oversized shiny revolver wave wildly and scream and froth behind an oversized ski mask for everybody to hit the floor . but the unintended comic relief only virtue be that it allow u to laugh out the tension build by the omnipresent question and be this picture really go to take off and do something excite while or do i misread the ad . unfortunately and relief be brief and because now there not enough film time leave to do anything with this new tack in any detail . or our writer couldn not think of anyplace interesting to go with it . so be just predictably trot through the gang retaliation and the hero triumph and 1 2 3. nagging realistic question and raise by the nagging realistic backdrop of the film and all the early nagging realistic tearjerker sequence such a and how our reallife cop go to avoid the statutory consequence of go over the edge and no matter how much one may sympathize with him be then dispose of in a coda quickie ( maybe two minute ) with the detective chief simply summarize the wrap ups to his one good cop . some sexnlanguage stick in with the episodic violence and but nothing unexpected there and and a we say earlier and production value be the usual best that money can buy in spite of the sickly script while so we give it an imdb 2 and and no more .