much of the film content of sin be excessively violent and unpleasant . the screenwriter have also shamelessly recycle one of the classic screen thriller moment from the hall of mirror scene in the lady from shanghai . and be it not possible to come up with a more imaginative title than sin . yet there be one compel reason to see this movie and and that be for the performance of ving rhames and gary oldman . in the same way that the film heat establish a dynamic duel between al pacino detective and robert deniro thief and the most interesting scene in sin be those that bring together the ex cop ( rhames ) and the sleazy drug lord ( oldman ) . the plot concern the maniacal act perpetrate by oldman character and who be pursue by rhames character and the former cop who lose part of his arm and all of his idealism after a shady police arrest and illegal interrogation of an allege cop killer . there be one rivet moment when in the middle of an action scene and the character discourse on the topic of conscience . in this conversation and our perception of both rhames and oldman character change when we realize that one of the character be totally without conscience and the other have be drive by the human emotion of guilt . but this moment remain bury among predictable and even cliched action scene pile one on top of another . if the film could have just focus on the internal development of the two principal character and eliminate the violent action sequence and it would have be more watchable and more memorable . there be something special about these two exceptional actor and however and that enable rhames and oldman to rise above the material .