An actor with the unlikely name of Johnny Strong; I am not kidding, is Detective Sean Riley and his kid has died, the marriage is falling apart, the boss is close to suspending the high flying cop and now a series of unsolved murders has New Orleans in its grip. How is that for an opening sentence.Riley is o.k. as the embattled defender of all that is good in the world but the script is so filled with clichés and cardboard characters screaming at each other that it is just another seen it all before cop movie.Car chases, fires, shootings, gang wars and every typical action scene is pulled out with great frequency, so if a mind numbing entertainment is your bag, this may for you. Otherwise rent one of the old Lethal Weapons flicks.

reason for 7 star; due to very low budget there were couple of scenes that missed that "extra " punch. this is a guy's movie, doubt ladies will like it unless they view it for the main protagonists (heroes and anti-heroes types).plot was quiet decent, straight up, nothing spectacular but i appreciate for not being led on by some cheesy or pointless melodramatic fill up scenes.however dialogues and acting very good for an action flick (all actors more or less look the part they play). in first half had quiet a dew nice surprises not found in almost any of the low budget action flicks.i should sum it up as a decent revenge flick of sorts.

Now we have a movie here, with this cool name "Sinners and saints'. Sounds interesting and promising. Have not heard about this movie before. Should it be an average movie then? Yes it is.There are two big names attached to this movie like two big cojones; "Sean Patrick Flanery" and "Tom Berenger". SPF just plays a role of 5 minutes max in the whole movie and TB maybe 10. They both die and that's that. No action in their asses, no reason to have been a part of this movie in the first place.Now we are left with the main character, this cop played by Joynnhy Strong. Nice actor, played well. But I did not hire this movie because of him. I hired this movie because of SPF and TB. So yes, I was disappointed.SPF works for a company called Spartan. He has some evidence on a tape and Russian gang members want to have this tape. The when the movie evolves, these Russian members were involved in the Amecican war. So are they Russian people or are they American people? Now this "boss" of the Russian army people, or American people, played by Costas Mandylor isn't really that scary like Gary Oldman was in Léon. He seems to want this tape because his boss wants to have this tape. Does this boss work for Spartan? Costas Mandylor is on this tape killing some soldiers. So it seems to me that Costas Mandylor wants this tape for personal reasons and not for his boss. Who was this geeky boss with this earphone who was in bed with a young lady? What was his purpose in this movie? There are lots of loose ends. This movie is a small dick with two big names attached with no reason. Acting of Kevin Phillips was terrible. Action was hilarious. A lot of shooting and, knowing that these bad guys are trained people, they missed a lot! What a waste of time.

This has got to be one of the most amazing films ever made. It takes a new spin on the buddy cop genre for the 21st century. Everything is original (it is an independent film after all) and surprisingly, it is a thought-provoking film. I own a lot of movies and this is the one I have watched over and over in recent history. The main actor also has produced some of the music, which is amazing, to say the least. I had no expectations of this film, however, everything is done is an original manner - surprising, as most films seem to rehash something you've seen before.I cannot recommend this highly enough - yeah sure it may not be for some, but seeing is believing.