It was a derivative mess cobbled together by Bigelow`s slick commercial style, a film of stale ideas assembled by people whose only interest was in chase scenes that were `kinetic` but couldn`t hide the fact that the characters were uninteresting. The cliches were piled high in this one—eviol white cops, rapper who speaks truth to power-cum-civil rights leader, second-hand Blade Runner `Dark!` visuals, junkie heroes. It was pure torture to sit through. But then I think Cameron and Bigelow are hugely overrated, empty-headed filmmakers.