How do you make a five star neo-noir perfect? Base it in the silly season, around a police brutality subplot dubbed “Bloody Christmas” by the press.
An act of prisoner beating affects the lives of numerous cops, including Guy Pearce’s straitlaced career detective and Russell Crowe’s troubled low level bruiser.
Like all great noir, this begins small and expands to encompass celebrity, greed, corruption and power. And proves that despite being bright and sunny in the desert it’s cold out in the city of angels.
