I couldn’t help myself thinking about that other movie, “Training Day” with Denzel Washington. This time, another L.A. cop, Abel (Samuel L. Jackson) lives in a rich neighborhood he likes to patrol like if it was his own backyard. A fine day, a young interracial couple, buys the house next to the L.A. sergeant pretending to open up a new chapters in their lives as a family. The mere idea of having to see a couple from different ethnic groups is appalling to Abel and he decides to change the natural course of events by trying to be a pain to his neighbors, first by warning them to park the car in the designed areas, then by caught the husband throwing a fag end to his flowers, then by using night light directed straight to his neighbors sleeping room. Later on, he dislikes his neighbors expressing affection at her swimming pool while being watched by Abel’s kids. Abel is a violent fellow taking live too seriously and having been warned by his boss several times, internal affairs decide to suspend him due to several complains of misbehavior and violent against his detainees. This causes him a deeper depression which make him totally loose control: he fixes a burglary to his neighbors house. A young delinquent he is in contact with is suppose to enter his neighbors house while all are at another’s next door neighbor party. Once all there, Abel is called by his punk collaborator and the latter is told to “do your thing”. Unluckily for Lisa (Kerry Washington), the wife, she happens to reach the house earlier than the expected and find the burglar inside the house, a fight breaks and she ends being thrown by the huge punk and faints. While the latter is exiting the house, Abel enters the house, and while both have eye contact, Abel releases 3 bullets that kill the youngster. Latter on Abel remembers this guy he killed called him on the cell and he has to clean the evidences. Unluckily for him, Chris (Patrick Wilson), the husband, finds the cell first and he knows it belongs to the burglar, calls to the last number dialed and Abel answers it. I will leave the end undisclosed. Good action, script, set and acting. Score:7.
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