Maziun Nothing new here . Another cop with family problems , dead cop , revenge ,investigation ,white racists … It's all been done before and with better results. There is one thing I learned from this movie – don't chase a guy when you have a hangover. Don Johnson tries very hard to bring life in an uninteresting character and he deserves some praise for that. There is nice shootout at the end. There is simplistic anti-racist message . There are some funny moments here and there (telephone scene). Some investigation and action. Some unintentionally funny ideas (FBI agent who doesn't like swearing and looks like straight from "Police academy" , psychiatrist who looks like Woody Allen)It's not a terrible movie , but it is a waste of time. This movie is like a love story in it – appears for a while , then quickly disappears and doesn't stay with you. As for John Frankheimer… All I can say it's that we all need to pay taxes.I give it 1/10.

neldodm I write this commentary because I'm surprised of the low rate that people gave to this movie. I repeat: I give this film a 9! Allow me to say that is a John Frankenheimer's film. I mean, all his movies are great! This one is funny, but a serious film, with an excellent plot, good dialogs, all the actors -his performances- are very credible, an intrigue that keeps you interested about what is going to happen next, suspense, action scenes very well filmed, even at least two moments of fine humor. All these elements provides a 9/10 points and elevate this film to another category. It's not a B realization. Even more, the story about a sect of fanatic racist people which exists in real life (not this one in particular, but there are hundreds of them in the United States), so it gives to the film a particular point of view about this sad reality. It almost can be watched as a documentary. Very good film, it's been edited in DVD. Don't loose the opportunity to watch it! And also with all the others movies of John Frankenheimer, take a look of his list as director. All excellent

Ddey65 From World War 2 through the fall of the Soviet Union, communism has been a genuine threat, but two things made the threat seem like an absolute joke; 1)Bad "Red Scare" movies of the 1950's, and 2)One exploitive Senator named Joseph McCarthy. Since the 1960's, people have used these incidents to dismiss the threat and everything connected to America's effort to fighting it. DEAD-BANG is a reminder of the first of these problems, only this Don Johnson movie attacks the far-right instead of the far-left.Don Johnson plays Jerry Beck, a Los Angeles cop investigating a murder of both a black convenience store owner, and a cop who tried to stop the people who killed him. Soon enough, he finds that the people who killed them are much worse than a bunch of two-bit losers who dress in Nazi uniforms and paraphernalia in order to feel good about themselves. But what does Beck find when he investigates a murder with racial overtones? An uncooperative police department that thinks he's losing his marbles, an uptight Born-Again Christian FBI man(William Forsythe), a police psychiatrist(Michael Jeter) who he gets into a fight with over the fact that he looked like Woody Allen, a rural Oklahoma sheriff's(William Traylor) depot that hasn't changed since 1965, a local church that's a disguised version of the World Church of the Creator, with ties to a military compound that's obviously a disguised version of the Aryan Nations.The fact that this movie slams white supremacy, yet almost all the black cops get killed fighting the right-wing militia, doesn't really say much for it. Another thing that bothers me is that Johnson's character frequently refers to the car driven by the neo-Nazis as a "maroon Ford station wagon." Perhaps if he tried looking for a maroon PONTIAC station wagon, which was the actual make of the car, he might improve his chance of finding the culprits. I can't recommend it entirely, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have something going for it.

bronsonskull72 Don Johnson stars as Jerry Beck a renegade cop who takes on a group of white supremists who are responsible for knocking off a black store owner and hispanic restaurant owners in this standard cop actioner which does have it's moments of entertainment such as the scene where Johnson throws up on one of his suspects or the showdown Johnson has with a shrink. Overall Dead Bang may not be a classic but it does live up to it's title.