"Narc" started with a narcotics officer named Nick Tellis (Jason Patric) chasing a perp. The perp grabbed a man, presumably as a shield or as a hostage, then thought better of it, injected the bystander with one of the two needles in his hand and kept running. The bystander fell to the ground writhing in pain. Tellis briefly checked on the injected man and kept chasing.
Next the perp grabbed a child, again as a hostage or shield, and with his last remaining needle he placed it up to the child's neck. Tellis, who was still pursuing on foot, began firing his weapon at the perp while running. Miraculously, he shot the perp while missing the child, although he did hit the child's mother and caused her to lose her unborn child.
Not much later Tellis is in front of a review board. The three person panel asked him about the incident. Tellis, to prove that the board was beneath him, asked the typical question, "Have you ever been a narc?" The answer was no. Then he said, "You can go bleep yourself." Then he walked off with his pension. We know he got back into being a detective, but the first ten minutes of this movie put a bad taste in my mouth.
On what continent is firing at a suspect, who's holding a child, while you're running, procedurally OK. How was that not a fireable offense at minimum, or a jailable offense at medium?
This was to be our protagonist. He was reinstated to do police work because they needed someone from the narc unit to help investigate the murder of a cop. He partnered with Det. Henry Oak (Ray Liotta), who was also a piece of work. He liked to beat up on suspects who were women and child abusers--beatings that all fair minded people would agree to. But of course that puts the sanctimonious cop in the position of being judge, jury, and executioner. Furthermore, if he's a loose cannon like that, what's to say he wasn't doing other extrajudicial things in the name of the law.
With these two unworthy and unpredictable cops on an investigation about a murdered cop you can be sure that they were going to be kicking down doors and knocking heads. They did exactly that while each line they crossed seemed to be justified because they were violating drug dealers anyway. Who cares about crooks right?
Tellis ended up being the better of the two wildcards as he prevented Oak from murdering two drug dealers who he knew didn't kill the cop. After all the head knocking and threatening, we find out that the murdered cop committed suicide. He was so hooked on drugs he was selling police guns and badges to get a fix. To protect his "good" name, Oak was going to pin the suicide on two drug dealers and then murder them to clean it all up. The things Blue will do for each other.
Next the perp grabbed a child, again as a hostage or shield, and with his last remaining needle he placed it up to the child's neck. Tellis, who was still pursuing on foot, began firing his weapon at the perp while running. Miraculously, he shot the perp while missing the child, although he did hit the child's mother and caused her to lose her unborn child.
Not much later Tellis is in front of a review board. The three person panel asked him about the incident. Tellis, to prove that the board was beneath him, asked the typical question, "Have you ever been a narc?" The answer was no. Then he said, "You can go bleep yourself." Then he walked off with his pension. We know he got back into being a detective, but the first ten minutes of this movie put a bad taste in my mouth.
On what continent is firing at a suspect, who's holding a child, while you're running, procedurally OK. How was that not a fireable offense at minimum, or a jailable offense at medium?
This was to be our protagonist. He was reinstated to do police work because they needed someone from the narc unit to help investigate the murder of a cop. He partnered with Det. Henry Oak (Ray Liotta), who was also a piece of work. He liked to beat up on suspects who were women and child abusers--beatings that all fair minded people would agree to. But of course that puts the sanctimonious cop in the position of being judge, jury, and executioner. Furthermore, if he's a loose cannon like that, what's to say he wasn't doing other extrajudicial things in the name of the law.
With these two unworthy and unpredictable cops on an investigation about a murdered cop you can be sure that they were going to be kicking down doors and knocking heads. They did exactly that while each line they crossed seemed to be justified because they were violating drug dealers anyway. Who cares about crooks right?
Tellis ended up being the better of the two wildcards as he prevented Oak from murdering two drug dealers who he knew didn't kill the cop. After all the head knocking and threatening, we find out that the murdered cop committed suicide. He was so hooked on drugs he was selling police guns and badges to get a fix. To protect his "good" name, Oak was going to pin the suicide on two drug dealers and then murder them to clean it all up. The things Blue will do for each other.