Pride and Glory

I think when they made Pride and Glory they were probably thinking of how long it had been since the last really good cop movie... LA Confidential so long forgotten it isn't even on the shelf at Blockbuster says my last trip down the aisle... Lethal Weapon 1, 2 and 3 not really good cop movies... and Training Day unable to make the jump from pop-culture Star Wars 1, 2, or 3 short-term memory to epic Star Wars 4, 5, and 6 long-term memory... and so, FTW, all they had to do was mix all the plots from every old cop movie together... bring in 2 fairly well-known prototypical man characters... if we're lucky add on one, up to two, new twists... package... and sell it again to movie-goers who trust the fact that Edward Norton makes really good movies and Colin Farrel has made at least one good movie... this system is similar to music producers who take older songs, find new good-looking singers, change the beat, and somehow surprisingly pass it off as something new to an unsuspecting teenie-bopper generation... which in turn becomes the only good song on a complete garbage platinum selling CD... but the problem this time was, I bet, they signed off on the movie before 'The Departed' came out... too late to drop the movie... but, in effect, the time between trust issues, dirty cops, protecting your own, and the grey issues of crime fighting were less than one year old and incredibly tired...