Ambushed

As an invective against white supremacists, this finger-pointing cop picture is boisterous but none too convincing. When white separatist icon Jim Natter (William Sadler) is gunned down at a gas station, the real killers frame the Black Muslims. While Natter's two-faced successor Shannon Harrold (Robert Patrick) espouses white-power rhetoric in the media, Sheriff Carter (Charles Hallahan) assigns Jerry Robinson (Courtney B. Vance) to guard Natter's equally racist youngster Eric (Jeremy Lelliott): An eyewitness to his dad's murder, Eric has deduced that Harrold ordered the assassination. While transporting Eric to a safe house, Robinson's men are ambushed in a plot ...