It was a little contrived story, because it was clear that the son reacted very aggressive to this drug deal; and he knew his dad would never accept it. So why doing it? It makes only sense if the son is somehow in debt with this schmucks.
Shawn should have understand that his son probably has a drug addiction (because he supposedly saw it with many of his friends?) - but he didn't.
For the sake of the story I would have believed that he is simply a nasty crook used to power, and by that "law", he has to avenge his son. But this is just a writing trick to make the reasoning more believable, and give Ed something to work with.
But in the end, he didn't reacted sane. By including dead cops and a city wide manhunt, he forced anybody in the game to choose a side; more even his whole enterprise is at stake - not to forget the numerous stormtroopers he is wasting on this.
Its an old school movie with many plausible and well shot action scenes, but the story falls flat at too many places to really reach the upper class. Maybe this is just the type of movies that sell.
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