This Isn't So Much About the Internal Affairs Division, It's More About the Internal Sexual Affairs of the Cops Involved in This Steamy, Sultry, Sleazy Thriller.Richard Gere and Andy Garcia are Well Cast as the Two Bulls, Both with Testosterone Issues and the "Good Cop-Bad Cop" Characters are Fleshed Out in a Slightly Over the Top Display of the Foul Mouthed and Utterly Amoral Gere and the Affection, but Hot Latin Love of Garcia that He Displays to His Faithful Wife.The Film Takes a Hard Look at Gere's Lech and His Unbridled Manipulation of Women and His Seductive Powers with a Nineties Disregard for Subtlety. Garcia, On the Other Hand is Being Push-Buttoned by Gere's Form of Evil and the Film Makes the Most of the Two Attractive Leads.Overall, it's a Neo-Noir Worth Checking Out for Gere's Against Type Take on His Type of Leading Man Appeal. Garcia, Shows His Sensitive Side Well, but is Allowed Melodramatic Emoting too Often. However, the Director Manages to Make it Work Most of the Time.The Only Thing More on Display than the Run Rampant Sexual Activity is the Amount of Female Hair that Dominates the Frame Routinely. But that Was the Reality and Not a Stylization of the Makeup Department.

This was one of the best, underrated movies. It is appalling to me that this movie scored only three starts. It is a study in the psychology of power, sex, and money. One of the best scenes is the one in which Raymond Avila goes haywire because of love.One definitely sees the hot-Latin temperament.I love the contrast between Dennis Peck sitting with his daughter for tea or with his wife in the bathtub and, then, being absolutely cold-blooded. Finally, with the sexy Richard Gere and Andy Garcia (oh, and Baldwin is not so bad, either), how could it not be the best ever movie for "not-so-proper" English ladies?

I liked this one. A lot. I wanted to know what happened next. I like Andy Garcia. He plays a cop. Richard Gere also plays a cop. It's a good cop, bad cop tale. Nancy Travis is in it, playing Garcia's wife. And she's pretty good. Not a lot of screen time for her, really. Garcia plays an internal affairs investigator at LAPD who becomes obsessed with nailing a corrupt cop, played by Gere. Garcia's partner is a lesbian, played by Laurie Metcalf, who is pretty great in this one. Nancy Travis' character is jealous of Metcalf's character, and Garcia is jealous of Gere. There's a lot of sexual jealousy informing everything. William Baldwin is also in this one and he's pretty good in it. The performances are all pretty good. I recommend this one. It's a great story, and in my opinion Richard Gere and Andy Garcia are both really fun to watch. Richard Gere is a slimy bad guy, with an almost satanic dimension. Garcia - Garcia's the good guy but his motives are unclear. He's a complex character. I recommend you check this one out.

(Credit IMDb) Keen young Raymond Avila joins the Internal Affairs Department of the Los Angeles police. He and partner Amy Wallace are soon looking closely at the activities of cop Dennis Peck whose financial holdings start to suggest something shady. Indeed Peck is involved in any number of dubious or downright criminal activities. He is also devious, a womanizer, and a clever manipulator, and he starts to turn his attention on Avila.Everyone talks about how good Richard Gere is in this movie. He is solid, but if you wanna see how good he can be with an underhanded type of role, watch Arbitrage. That movie is far more suspenseful. This one kept putting me to sleep. I had a lot of trouble paying attention. I like dark cop thrillers, but this one is so murky and dreary. There is nobody to root for. Andy Garcia isn't exactly likable himself. Everyone has a right to their opinions, so feel free to check this one out. It wasn't for me3/10