Deep Cover

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Deep Cover 2010-03-04 Policeman Russell Steven applies for a special anti-drug squad which targets the highest boss of cocain delivery to LA, the Columbian foreign minister's nephew. Russell shall work his way up from the bottom undercover, until he reaches the boss. First step is to get the lawyer and hobby dealer David Jason to trust him. Jason wants to switch to legal designer drugs, but hasn't got the capital yet, so Steven's ambitious help is welcomed. To keep his cover, Steven has to go farer than any officer before, he has to really sell the drugs he buys, and some day even eliminate a competitor, and gets problems seeing the line between the good and the bad. "Deep Cover," kept me on the edge of my seat. The scenes between Larry Fishburne and Charles Martin Smith are superb, the writing is virtually flawless, the action is exciting and fresh. A good, but violent movie.
Predictable and a bit dull 2009-09-29 Another undercover cop trying to snare some big Hispanic drug dealers. This type of thing happened every week on Miami Vice. Here, the setting is LA, but the theme is the same. Fishburn smolders a bit too much, and Jeff Goldblum is his usual greasy self. The cutting and editing are circa early 90s and seem a little dated now. If you can't find anything else to watch, this may suffice.
Another Interesting 'Neo Noir' From The '90s 2009-02-06 As grungy and hard-edged as this movie is, I still found a number of good things going for it that made the movie entertaining to watch. The story moves very fast, which tells you something. As someone who loves narration, I enjoyed Laurence Fishburne's deep-voiced first-person narrating. He was smooth in this gritty 1990s film noir (neo-noir, as they call it) filled with hard-boiled characters, rough language and some brutal scenes wrapped around a drug story. The early '90s produced some fine neo-noirs. However, as rough as that sounds, they don't overdo the violence but the profanity can make you wince at times. It also has the normal Liberal cheap shots against Republicans: this time George Bush Sr. (The major villain, a South American drug lord is pictured as a friend of Bush's. And, you also get the usual baloney of the U.S. Government and the DEA being bad guys. If that isn't enough, they also play the "race card" in here. Yet, I still liked this film. At least they also took a shot at phony Liberals, who Jeff Goldblum's character portrays. Goldblum's "David Jason" actually had the best lines in the film, however. He is shown as morally-bankrupt atheist. This movie is unusual in that the main character - Fishburne's "Russell Stevens" - goes from good guy to bad guy back to good guy! This is an intriguing, dark film.
An under rated and overlooked movie 2008-11-26 Another good film that manages to kiss black butt while making a kick butt movie at the same time. The movie Blade does this too, to a large extent if you are into that type of stuff. Yes, some situations seem implausable (would you really turn a gun on your superiors or punch them? And if you that straight, would you be social enough to be a good seller of dope?) But just turn the mind off, and enjoy the good directing, music, scenary, acting, and story. The film manages to give dignity to black people and make them look cool, while hinting at the social injustice inherent within the "system".
One of Larry's best early lead performances of the nineties 2008-04-01 Deep Cover is Fish's third best performances of the early nineties behind Boyz N The Hood and What's Love Got To Do With It. The character he plays in Deep Cover is a smooth cop who gets in over his head when he goes undercover. Jeff Goldblum makea great bad guy and the direction by Bill Duke was also very good following A Rage In Harlem from a year earlier.