Merolliv I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

Bluebell Alcock Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

Sarita Rafferty There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

Jerrie It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

SanFernandoCurt The Ramparts Scandal of the 1990s entailed L.A. gang members infiltrating the police department, violently shaking down fellow gang-bangers, then, in perjured testimony after their stupidity busted wide open the whole mess, ruined the careers of honest cops in L.A.P.D.'s gang units. As final salt in the wound, taxpayers were soaked for millions in court settlements to the put-upon homies that got rough treatment from these hoods in blue.The real villains of the piece were not-well-thought-through outreach projects to recruit more inner-city youth into the city's police force. This was yet another brainstorm of liberal social engineers far removed from the detritus wrought by their brilliance.This movie, inspired by Ramparts, takes those facts and corkscrews them 180 degrees. The gangstas are the cops. All cops. The real villain is the SYSTEM, maaaaaaan.This tired, hackneyed tripe represents the warped mindset of Hollywood's establishment today. It's a weak-tea Frankfurt School indictment of class, race, capital, injustice... (yaaaawn). I think one of the great injustices in this country today that so much of our media, so much of our political arena, is fabricated by these tapas-bar revolutionaries from the mean streets of Malibu, Brentwood and Beverly Hills. Decades ago, "Dirty" would be hailed as wonderfully subversive by reviewers feasting on the bounty of the very system they claim to despise. It's as subversive as "Dancing With the Stars". This is the only political viewpoint we get - in any movie or documentary produced in this country.In that respect, this movie is similar to "Crash", that other self-celebration of hypocritical Lefty gibberish. In fact, the scene in which Gooding Jr. hassles a middle-class white couple was almost straight-lifted a few years later for "Crash", with the racial components reversed.One reviewer here proposed "it's easy to behave morally in a sheltered, safe, middle-class environment." Well, it's easier not to become murderous animals in that kind of environment - that's for sure. And, evidently, it's a lot easier to develop a morality far removed from the real world by typing out scripts in tony neighborhoods with gates, guards, income levels in the stratosphere and worldviews in Never-Never Land.

David Phillips Watch Training Day instead. After all, the writer/director/cast obviously did. The speeded up scratched images have fast become a gimmick of a weak film rather than the edgy style it once was (Seven, Fight Club).Cuba Gooding Jnr?! He won an Oscar over 10 years ago, since then what has he done? Boat Trip, Michael Jordan Underwear adverts and this terrible rip off of Denzel Washington in Training Day. He is truly woeful.Take some time to consider who he beat that year: William H. Macy, James Woods, Edward Norton and Armin Mueller Stahl.In this movie, rather than Denzel, Cuba reminded me very much of Malcolm Jamal Warner...Theo HuxtableIt's a pity because the lead actor, Clifton Collins Jnr looked like he could have carried a film. I think a personal conflict of gang connections, the law and dirty cops would have been much better for him.

ralf_nader It's about corruption in the police force, but there is no real point to it. The acting in the movie is pretty decent. It may or may not have been a low budget film. If it was low budget is was not extremely obvious (a good thing). But throughout the movie you are just watching... hoping to find some shred of morality or redeeming quality in any one of the characters, or at least some point or message to this movie. Don't keep your hopes up on that one.Perhaps there was a message to the movie. Everyone is corrupt. Everything is hopeless.If you have nothing better to do, and you don't have to pay to see this movie, maybe consider it.

okieindian It is hard to believe that Cuba Gooding would allow himself to sink this low. In fact it is disgraceful that a man with his talent would consent to this vulgar attempt to paint all cops as the bad guys and promote drug dealers and gang members as the heroes. The writers, producers and directors that made the movie possible showed a complete lack of talent and good taste. There are no redeeming qualities.Dialog: The dialog consists of continuous profanities and without the "f" word would be reduced to almost no dialog at all.I watched the entire movie,hoping (nay, praying) that it would develop into something worthy of Cuba Gooding's talent, and unfortunately all that I received was a feeling of contempt for anyone and everyone that allowed this piece of garbage to become a movie.I do not even want to know who the other people are that were involved in making this movie... and I would not recommend it to my worst enemy. I'm sure the punks off the streets will find it most entertaining and maybe even motivational...