646f9e108c Jimmy, a business-like young man, enters a room where a man, the accountant for a shadowy drug lord, is shackled. Over the next week, Jimmy systematically tortures the accountant, demanding information about missing funds. The accountant denies any knowledge. In flashbacks to six months before, we see Jimmy's joining a group of the drug lord's enforcers, surviving brutal hazing, getting his first assignment, and keeping his cool. We also learn that Jimmy has another identity, friends in high places, and a girlfriend unhappy about both his work and his changing personality. Can Jimmy hold on to his humanity as he carries out increasingly nightmarish orders?
An undercover FBI agent faces a moral dilemma when he's asked to torture a member of one of the world's most powerful crime syndicates.
I actually liked this movie. Not the best I saw but it was (somewhat) entertaining.<br/><br/>Of course there's a "but". I wish whoever designed the DVD cover is put in a vault an tortured for days ("a la" Mr. Green). Once you see that damn cover, you can make yourself an idea on how the plot will go. From the very beginning I could only think of why I had seen Laurence Fishburne (as Mr. Green) bruised and holding a gun on the cover of the DVD. Unfortunately, it was not a very hard guess.<br/><br/>I usually avoid watching movie trailers, as they are full of spoilers and some even disclose the whole plot. But now I can't even get a movie and watch its cover (or poster) for fear it might spoil it. Thank you guys.<br/><br/>I'm giving a 6 to the movie, and 1 to the DVD cover. That makes a total average of 3,5 which I'll round to 4.
This gets 3 because it has some decent acting and characterisation, and part of the plot is intriguing. It loses 7 because of the absurd parts of the plot. SPOILER=><br/><br/>The FBI want to run a deep cover operation against a criminal mastermind, so who do they send in an attempt to covertly infiltrate this extremely security conscious, violent crime group: The son of the FBI Director!!!! Then at the same time as he is working deep undercover as a henchman, he also flies to Washington to meet with his dad, and attends FBI Black Tie functions at a local hotel.<br/><br/>Whilst undercover he commits several unlawful acts, such as torturing a captive, which I'm pretty sure is a no-no if you want to go to court with any of this.<br/><br/>Then the FBI Director/Dad gets directly involved in a high risk operation, with his undercover son, and decides to take a "rescued" informant directly (and illegally) to a private warehouse somehow giving the slip to the other 100 FBI agents, an act that would see him dismissed by the President in a heartbeat.<br/><br/>There are other annoyances, like how does a guy who rides a motorbike with no visible storage, keep arriving home with long-stemmed roses, Chinese food and a large undamaged pizza? How does an FBI agent spend seven days in a chamber torturing a guy, but not notice the loose drain cover that a colleague later spots in the first 5 seconds in the room. Why does a guy who is still supposed to be undercover personally identify himself as an FBI agent in full view of the camera that has (supposedly) watched his every act in that room for the past week?