This was some perfect 90's cheese. I had heard of Ricochet and knew Denzel was in it but that was all. Next thing you know the credits start rolling and all the greats were here! This is about a cop/law student named Nick Styles who before he got started was a flirt and played basketball with a thug named Odessa. He later becomes a cop and while at a carnival he and his partner stumble on a shooting by a dude named Earl Talbot Blake. This dude is nuts as hell! He takes a woman hostage and strips down to his draws (which pleased my lady to no end) and shoots Blake and saves the day. By the way, that hostage deserved it. She came skipping out the port-a-potty like there weren't two men with guns out. So while Style's life skyrockets after the arrest Blake plots to get revenge from prison.
This man takes Petty to a whole new level. He joins with some racists and has a gladiator fight. He shoots up his parole hearing, kills a guy that helped him escape, fakes his own death, kills a city councilman, sets up Style's for embezzling, kidnaps him, drugs him with heroin, films him with a hooker, and films his children sleeping. When Style's is free all this sounds insane especially when they see the tape of him with the hooker and they have his voice consenting to it. His wife is like “Dude, this shit is getting hard to believe!” Style's sets up a scene like he is gonna kill himself which pisses off Blake because he wants Style's alive and miserable. They end up battling each other on an electrified fake version of the Watts Towers. Its insane. This movie was insane. I liked it.
Denzel Washington as Assistant District Attorney Nick Styles
John Lithgow as Earl Talbot Blake
Ice-T as Odessa
Lydell M. Cheshier as R.C., Odessa's second In Command
Kevin Pollak as Lieutenant Larry Doyle
Lindsay Wagner as District Attorney Priscilla "The Hun" Brimleigh
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