Matt Lavender’s review published on Letterboxd:
Dunno if this is some early 90s oddity or a cult classic but it's worth a watch for fun dumb crime times.
Got this thing from a charity shop with a bunch of other shit.
Denzel vs Lithgow with bonus Ice T. Written by Steven E. de Souza, dude who wrote Die Hard, Commando, Running Man and, er, Street Fighter and Judge Dredd. Nobody's perfect.
Young Denzel and Ice T playing basketball and then Moby Dick references, because of arch nemesis/Ahab trope, yeah? Denzel being kinda creepy and smooth at the same time, charismatic as usual though. John Lithgow shoots up a room full of crime people, lots of nice 90s squib work.
The scene I nearly died laughing at: Lithgow has a hostage. Denzel the cop has him at gun point. Stand off. Denzel STARTS STRIPPING and gets uber bad guy Lithgow, becomes God Cop. So Lithgow is incarcerated and swears revenge.
Some 2nd act madness: Aryan prison fight, Denzel being the wackiest district attorney ever. Awesome probation hearing scene with Lithgow, what the fuck.
Anyway Lithgow gets out of jail and begins the most insane vengeance scheme ever, kinda different to the usual criminal mastermind vengeance plans.
Cheesy as all fucking hell but it's quippy, fast as shit and entertaining. Very 90s, this shit just wouldn't work now. Like Airplane, if the script was tweaked a tiny bit and played a bit differently it could almost be a spoof. Denzel sells it though.