The Corruptor Reviews

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Metascore ®: 67
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San Francisco Chronicle | Bob Graham

The Corruptor' quickly turns into a good bad-cop drama of fascinating moral complexity.

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100
Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

Beneath The Corruptor's explosive body count is a rock-solid, visually slick crime thriller set in the squalid netherworld of Manhattan's Chinatown.

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75
Washington Post | Desson Howe

If you're in the mood for loud, fast-moving action trash, The Corruptor is waiting to meet you in a dark alley.

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70
The New York Times | Stephen Holden

The movie may be a conventional story of police corruption, temptation and conflicting loyalties, but it never loses its smarts.

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70
Variety | Emanuel Levy

It's to the filmmakers' credit that, as an actioner, The Corruptor is a character-driven movie, with several plot twists and turns involving the interactions among the gangs, cops, FBI and Internal Affairs.

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70
ReelViews | James Berardinelli

An interesting plot element or two and a stylish visual approach can't save James Foley's The Corruptor from coming across as a run-of-the-mill cop movie.

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63
Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

What you get in this cop drama is NYPD Blue lite. That's not bad. In fact, it's compulsively watchable. But there are no leaps, just fits and starts.

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50
Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

The director is James Foley, who is obviously not right for this material.

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38

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