If you do not know this generation you would say if you had nothing good to say ? "I say my opinion is Breathe taking every second every cigar every inch of onthinkable Perpective , complete American Gold! #Goldenglobe to Jodie Fosters Flight plan in comparison . Even lethal weapon could not come close to Calculation . #Blown away .

I started my collegiate career in Criminal Justice at the University of Houston Downtown. I thought I could help my community. I thought I would work with others who "care". I wanted to make a difference.This movie hit me in places in my soul that I forgot existed. A young woman with stars in her eyes and a heart to care for others more than she did for her own life and safety. A girl who would give up her life to make a better world for others. During classes, I saw that those others would kill cops like me without a second thought. In fact, it was cops exactly like me who ended up dead by those they were seeking to help.The long term prognosis for being a cop never turns out okay. At the end of the career, after the watch has been given...you go off to what? Coffee and newspapers at the local IHOP where Marjorie brings you your eggs. Then you go home and what? Be alone...go to sleep alone, watch TV alone, eat dinner alone and try not to remember what you saw over your career. Well, yes, if you are lucky.Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro...they are some kind of actors...actors who tell the stories written by writers about people most of us will never know. People living their lives each moment the best they can. This movie shows how incredibly complex this life is...Makes me wonder about the cop sitting across from me at Starbuck's...he doesn't know that we may have seen the same documentaries about the vocation. He went on to put on the badge, I went on to process debits and credits. I am posting to general ledger and he processes perpetrators on a daily basis.This is another aspect of this movie...when you are judgmental you always make the wrong call. What is reality? What decision is the best decision? How to you make the best decision when you have seconds to decide? How do you judge on the street, all hours of the morning to prevent crime of just take a report of the crime in the after math? Can you stop a train from going off the tracks when that train is YOU? It's torture but it is a fabulous, fabulous movie. Thank you to Robert DeNiro, 50 Cent, and Al Pacino along with every single person who helped to make this movie a reality. I applaud you. You made me remember an aspect of me that I forgot ever existed; Poets are dangerous. Well Done.

After seeing some of the crap reviews for this film, I HAD to write this one...I just finished watching it and I felt wholeheartedly that it was powerful, engaging, and very entertaining. Just watching these two legendary actors throughout the film was well worth the time. Amazingly, Jon Avnet did an outstanding job directing, and the editing, despite studio meddling, was surprisingly very tight and well done. The inter-cutting of flashbacks and even the minute amounts within scenes were masterfully done (and I am NOT a fan of frenetic editing AT ALL) The reason why I say 'Amazingly' is because another film by Avnet, '88 MINUTES' Also starring Al Pacino, was a rotting, fetid, piece of pure and unadulterated stench that sucked MAJOR camel balls. Gawd, that was awful (Gawd-awful...?) Anyway, by some mysterious alignment of someone's internal (or possibly external) organs, THIS film was extremely well done.I WILL say though, that this was a VERY rare case where I could NOT sit through the commentary; Lord knows I tried, I really did. But, Avnet was such a smug, sucky li'l Pr*ck, that I just couldn't take it. Also, whomever miked his sound should be taken out, dismembered, shot, killed, and then tortured some more. GEEZ!!! I cannot possibly convey how excruciatingly annoying it is to have a microphone shoved SO damn far up in someone's mouth that you hear EVERY friggin lip smack and mouth noise. HORRIBLE! And these are professionals... Uh huh... So, between the two, although I normally LOVE commentaries of films that I enjoyed, this guy I absolutely could NOT take! And the fact that he hasn't really done $h|t before or sense is of NO surprise to me.Anyway, sorry to digress there... Back to the film.Great movie. Very intense. Very intriguing. Very misleading (in a good way) And, MOST satisfying. As I mentioned before, the acting ALONE is reason enough to watch this, especially if you are fans of either guy. I truly have NO bloody idea what film these dickweed reviewers saw or WHAT the heck they can possibly be looking for in a movie, but as far as I'm concerned, it was pure art watching these two legends as they worked together through this amazing story...HIGHLY recommended!

Turk (Robert De Niro) and Rooster (Al Pacino) are aging police detective partners. They are after a smart drug dealer Spider (50 Cent). Also somebody is killing the criminal class. Other police detectives are played by Carla Gugino, John Leguizamo, Brian Dennehy, and Donnie Wahlberg.While it's great to see such superior actors chew up the dialog, I wish that they had better material to use. There are flash forwards that are either annoyingly on the nose, or bad obvious redirection. Either way it is unnecessary. The movie is better off without the distraction.The style has a bit of cheese, but mostly a TV police drama feel. It's not a strong suit. These actors deserve better. It just doesn't have any big cinematic visuals. The action isn't there, and there is no energy.It's obvious what the movie is trying to do. While it isn't actually cheating, it does make me feel manipulated. It's like a magician who's too obvious with a trick. It leaves me feeling underwhelmed.