Internal Affairs. 1990.
Andy Garcia plays the newly I.A. officer teamed with Laurie Metcalf, his new assignment is old friend William Baldwin who is facing charges of assault and placing evidence against a drug dealer. Baldwin's partner Richard Gere is smooth as they come by the book and respected by other officers, while I.A. believe him to corrupt. I'm really not one for Gere movies except maybe The Mothman Prophecies , but here he plays a cop that knows all the tricks in the book and can manipulate those who come across him. it is more spend the day with a dirty cop rather than the department trying to get evidence against him. Garcia and Metcalf are the miss shaped buddy cop duo and surprisingly actually able to work together without being a bickering married couple. This does set things up with the adrenaline of knowing who is shady and how can the good guys bring someone who is able to twist things around and still keep smiling.
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