I posted about Dark Blue to my journal but in the event you did not see it, here is the text:
I tried very hard to like it last night, but there was some sort of disconnect for me. It started with an eye popping torture scene which frankly surprised me given we are not talking about HBO or SHOWTIME, but your basic cable........ I guess it is why it is 10PM and not earlier............ When they could not achieve the correct answers from him.....he was trussed up, feet in a bucket of water as they zapped him with electric prods, the villain in charge told his men, "Get rid of him"............. I believe the head villain meant, 'get rid of him' as in killing him, not just dumping him where the police might find him, yet in the following scene we are introduced to Carter, the head of the undercover squad, who arrives at the hospital to find this same man, an undercover FBI agent, in a room. ....?????? There was a lot of other violence in it also.........blood spattering on a wall, e.g. when the head villain shoots one of his men for using his cell to call his girl friend. Suffice to say, excessive violence appears to be the way they handle lack of decent script anymore. The concept of deep cover is great, but the way it was handled left something to be desired.
about Dark Blue
I tried very hard to like it last night, but there was some sort of disconnect for me.
It started with an eye popping torture scene which frankly surprised me given we are not
talking about HBO or SHOWTIME, but your basic cable........
I guess it is why it is 10PM and not earlier............
When they could not achieve the correct answers from him.....he was trussed up, feet in a bucket of
water as they zapped him with electric prods, the villain in charge told his men,
"Get rid of him".............
I believe the head villain meant, 'get rid of him' as in killing him, not just dumping him where the police might find him, yet in the following scene we are introduced to Carter, the head of the undercover squad, who arrives at the hospital to find this same man, an undercover FBI agent, in a room. ....??????
There was a lot of other violence in it also.........blood spattering on a wall, e.g. when the
head villain shoots one of his men for using his cell to call his girl friend.
Suffice to say, excessive violence appears to be the way they handle lack of decent script anymore.
The concept of deep cover is great, but the way it was handled left something to be desired.