renegade be set in philadelphia where detective buster mchenry ( kiefer sutherland ) be work undercover to try and bring down a dirty cop by arrange a robbery to steal six million dollar worth of diamond and however thing do not go to plan and the dirty cop doesn not show up and instead mchenry be force to go through with the arm robbery with local mobster marino ( robert knepper ) and his men . thing go from bad to worse for mchenry a bullet start to fly and people be shot and kill and the cop show up and all hell break loose and marino and his men and mchenry try to escape en route stop off at an art gallery where marino take a fancy to an ancient indian tribal lance on display and decide to steal it shoot goerge storm ( gary farmer ) in the process . his brother hank storm ( lou diamond phillips ) be understandably annoyed and when he save mchenry life a marino shoot him and leave him for dead the two team up to bring marino down and prove mchenry innocence and get the indian tribal lance back . direct by jack sholder one have to say that renegade be a really lacklustre and lifeless attempt at mismatched partner team up together to bring down some bad guy action thriller and be in fact maybe one of the bad example i have see . there be plenty of great example of this type of mismatched partner action thriller from 48 hr . ( 1982 ) to lethal weapon ( 1987 ) and it sequels to midnight run ( 1988 ) to tango and cash ( 1989 ) to the last boy scout ( 1991 ) to the more recent rush hour ( 1998 ) and sequel to name but a few fine example and unfortunately when compare to shin light of the sub genre like the aforementioned renegade be just plain poor in every department by comparison . the main aspect of these type of film that ultimately make or break them be the partnership and here it a quick talk wise crack philadelphia cop with a blatant disregard for police procedure who get team up with a quiet respectful native american indian and it just doesn not come off since there virtually no humour or memorable interplay between the two . i just never warm to either of them although to be fair sutherland do try and his character do come off a the more likable of the two . the plot be extremely bare bone and very thin and basically there this robbery where event take a turn for the bad for our two main character and it become personal for them so they team up to bring down a common enemy . that it . there a suppose plot twist about a bad cop but it come to early in the film and have no real impact on the story other than a cop be involve with the main bad guy . the action scene be poor and very forgettable and there a dull car chase and a few see it all before shoot out where the bad guy can not shoot straight and no one ever run out of bullet and it just a case of men stand there hold gun fire at each other . yawn . the plot be extremely predictable and strictly by the number with these two mismatch partner hat each other to start with but grow to respect each other and become great friend and even put their own life at risk for one another and see it all before and usually do much well with more humour and more excitement . i also hat the end and i mean after kill people and steal car and threaten people at gunpoint and take part in an armed robbery where innocent people be kill and break every rule in the book mchenry get off scott free and even get a vacation out of it . the action scene and if you can call them that and be poor with only a fairly sedate car chase to remember the film by and even that seem lethargic and slow and dull . the occasional shoot out be dull and all look the same a each other and the plot twist be handle poorly and have little to no impact and renegade be one of the bad example of the mismatched partner action thriller genre i can remember see . for an 80 big studio big budget action thriller renegade doesn not seem to be that well know and there be only sixteen review on the imdb a i write this and only three external review . i can certainly understand why it be largely forget about and why it doesn not seem to have any sort of a following . make less than $ 10 and 000 and 000 at the box office i assume that renegade be a flop and the same year tango and cash be a much superior film use the same general template . film in philadelphia and ontario in canada . kiefer sutherland look fat and out of shape and have a really bad moustache but manage to live this down and have go on to have a fine career a a respected actor while lou diamond phillips have make dozen of low budget straight to video action film . renegade be a really predicable and humourless and dull and plod action thriller that throw two mismatch yet bore character together to bring down an equally boring enemy . one to avoid and even newly convert fan of kiefer sutherland ( beacuse of hit tv show 24 ) might want to skip this .