The cranking of an alternator as a car engine’s turning over, failing to start. A man checks the engine to see if he can get the car going. It doesn’t seem at all like the beginning of a Dave Chappelle movie, does it? That’s what I thought. Chappelle shows up, lightly amused by the…
Jack Mosley (Bruce Willis) is the sort of disheveled lush of a detective who gets assigned to escort a two-bit criminal, Eddie Bunker (Mos Def), to the District Attorney awaiting his testimony before a Grand Jury. Mosley’s the kind of detective who would rather avoid being noticed if he could. But he’s not your conventional stereotype of the lifer who took refuge behind a desk only to have his shot at the big…