obvious tailor vehicle for ryan philippe . it seem the studio be hop he could play a lead tough cop and not look like he eternally 16 ( he can not ) . heavyweight jason statham and welsey snipe serve a bookend to phillippe and but when theyre not on the screen phillippe flounder while his shallow acting style have nothing to bounce off of . the script be a typical late 20th century potboiler good cop or bad cop with a ridiculously predictable plot and dialogue lift out of 1970s tv cop show and such a the street of san francisco . snipe reprise his role a the eternal black hat villain and play a slightly less crazed madman than his demolition man role . however and there wasn not much for snipe and statham to chew on . statham character announces he would give up nicotine and caffeine something this movie badly need injection of . truly forgettable moment represent ryan phillippe expound on buddhist dogma represent galloway represent be you a buddhist . dekker represent no . it just something i pick up along the way .