robo8 Pros: Nice cast Cons: Horrible dialogue, incredibly stupid plot line, massively incoherent storytellingI'm sorry for the grammar, but running out of adjectives to enhance the poorness of this film. It is listed as a crime drama, but should be under Sci-Fi, because anything Star Trek is more probable than most of the stuff in this movie.I live in Sweden and don't have a clue how the Police Force in the states works, and much less about how the corrupt side of it would look. But I'm willing bet taking poison that it doesn't even remotely look anything like this. Rookies coming in and on the first day being offered to become dirty, through a "one way door". Basically saying become dirty with us or we will kill you!? That's just the beginning of the ludicrousness.You will not enjoy this movie, no matter how much you love any of the cast. Apart from the story being incredibly stupid, it is told in such an incoherent way that it's hard to understand what is going on. It feels like the actors know this, because most of them just come in and read their lines – some scenes literally sounds more like a read through of the script..I won't go on ranting, because there is no end to all the horrendousness I could pick on. 50 Cent – I understand you have some sort of liason with (director) Jesse Terrero, but please stop appearing in his horrible movies.

Jeff Turner We found this one in the bargain bin, and that's where it should have stayed. My wife and I started watching this last night, but the utterly ridiculous storyline and script made it impossible to watch to the end. As such I can only review the first 26 minutes of what is by far the worst film I've ever seen. I've no idea what Robert De Niro and Forest Whitaker were doing in this movie, but presumably they were in desperate need of money. I can imagine that we'll be seeing them both doing ads for haemorrhoid cream, or perhaps even appearing on the shopping channel soon.....If you like to think that 95% of all policemen are corrupt, and that all white police officers are crass and violent racists, this may be ideal entertainment for you. Otherwise the only worthwhile reason for watching it, is to laugh at the sight of 50 Cent wearing a policeman's hat (actually I'm sure this can be seen in the trailer, so I'd advise you to save your money!)

Rich Wright Take out all the scenes of coke-snorting, erotic dancing, fast-motion long shots of New York and endless swearing and you'll probably be left with just half an hour. Which would STILL be too long. It's a shapeless mess with lots of well known actors who should know better, being all 'hard' and 'street'. This is just a front, though... the reality is that this is more pantomime than grit. Every time someone whips out a gun, cusses or lets fly with their fists it all feels fake and rehearsed, as if this was a Hollywood executive's idea of a ghetto.. when he'd been living in a mansion at Beverly Hills for all his life.It's staggering to contemplate that this production contains not one, but TWO Oscar winners. Forest Whitaker I can understand... he's second only to Cuba Gooding Jr in the slumming Academy Award winners stake. But Robert De Niro... what a shocker. This is, without a doubt, this worst film I've seen him in. The sad fact is, he lends gravitas to his role in a film with no use for it. And there's barely anything more depressing than a writer trying to script what he thinks is a complex ending, which is about 100 times less intelligent than he thinks it is.Lastly, this movie is known as Crossfire here in the good ol' UK. Perhaps they should have changed it further, and retitled it Misfire. Tee hee, I made a funny... 4/10

mjacksongta I thought that De Niro's great acting would over come the presence of 50 cent and his horrible "acting" I was wrong. the 2 minutes of total screen time De Niro had was barley noticeable. I hate to say it but He must have just wanted to pick up a pay cheque. 50's acting was much improved from the last roll I saw with him in it in Ritious kill but maybe that was just because he had a smaller part and De Niro had Pachino to help drown out him out.The script seemed mixed up, they seem to put every kind of token cop from every cop movie i've ever seen before and then just switch their roles for the fun of it. maybe fun for the writers and directors but not so fun for us viewers. The IMDb rating of 4.4 is definitely justified.I gave it a generous 4/10