After GANG RELATED made several years earlier, where he was a rogue cop, Jim Belushi plays a borderline cop again, in a role that would have been perfect for Ray Liotta, and many others I guess. The directing is lousy, in the nineties mode for this 2002 movie destined to video and DVD. And precisely because for this reason, the topic saves us some good surprises. The lead character is far from being a good hero whose acts are foreseeable one million miles ahead. I love this kind of roles, in the line of Fred McMurray in PUSHOVER or Edmond O'Brien in SHIELD FOR MUDER. Sometimes in such lousy straight to DVD stuff, you may find such little gems but, again, no matter the directing skills. Forget that and focus on the plot and especially ending. A good tribute to the forties decade film noirs such as DOUBLE INDEMNITY.
Review of One Way Out
