Ackerman goes postal!
I gotta admit, the best part of this movie was seeing Charlie Sheen go postal on just about everybody in this movie. His character Ackerman, is used to playing it straight (ever since the death of his brother) and so he takes steps to go by the book and to ensure that the law is served. But when Nick is kidnapped and his survival falls upon David's hands, David realizes he's gonna have to break every rule in the book to keep another innocent from dying. And boy, David goes through some serious extremes to find Nick before time runs out.
The best part in this movie was him going straight back to the bar that he and Nick went to so they could find Loco. At first, the bartender thinks David is just gonna be a pushover without Nick...boy, was he wrong! David starts a barroom brawl, cracking people with pool sticks, beer bottles, front kicks and even blowing alcohol on his cigarette lighter. He's even cussing up a storm and daring more people to come at him, drawing his gun, shooting up liquor and just setting the place on fire! He even threatens to blow out the bartender's brains and leaving him to burn if he doesn't talk! Man, a real cop wouldn't get away with something like that in real life...not in a millions years! But I like it! After he gets the info, he tosses the guy a coin or something, reholsters his gun and calmly says, "I never did pay you for that beer."
I don't know why, but it was like seeing Martin Riggs all over again. Sheen definitely played the burnt out cop to perfection in this movie. Anyone agree or disagree, please post!