Film description here and on IMDB is wrong; good thriller
This film isn't about a rookie female cop "forced to balance her identity as a black woman." That's the IMDB tagline posted here. Metacritic's description is more accurate:
A rookie policewoman in New Orleans inadvertently captures the shooting death of a young drug dealer on her body cam. After realizing the murder was committed by corrupt cops... she finds herself on the run from both the vengeful criminals and the lawmen who desperately want to destroy the incriminating footage.
For decades, communities all over the USA have asked for body cams on cops, to discourage police misconduct or brutality. This film looks at a situation involving corrupt cops on the take. A female rookie cop, who was not supposed to be where she was, films a cop murdering an unarmed drug dealer with her body cam.
I saw the film on a free cable preview (thanks COVID-19). It's a good thriller. The bad cops (who are both black and white) want to get that body cam. So they do everything they think they can get away with, and the plot thickens. Picture-taking cell phones become part of the plot.
Most of the film takes place in a poor black New Orleans neighborhood. But the film is not a woke story about race or politics. Naomie Harris does a great job as the idealistic rookie cop. She is not a Mary Sue and cannot overpower the big men trying to hurt her. The rookie cop could have been played by a white man. But her vulnerability as a woman adds to the tenson.
Do you think body cams on cops will stop all police corruption? This film tells you what can happen. share