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Ambushed

1999, Movie, 99 mins

Ambushed: Review

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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 fronted by a vicious redneck cop, Lawrence (David Keith); Lawrence is shot in the crossfire and blames Robinson. On the lam with Eric, Robinson scrambles from the cops -- who believe Lawrence's lies -- and from Harrold, who's eager to cast suspicion elsewhere. Aided by Deputy Lucy Monroe (Virginia Madsen), who assembles proof of Robinson's innocence, Robinson tries to keep one step ahead of capture. As a policier, this melodrama has some legitimacy, and cinematographer-turned-director Ernest Dickerson handles the action sequences with real excitement. As a message movie, however, it founders. Little Eric's change of heart is too obvious, and, while a link between neo-Nazis and the good old boy network may not be without precedent, it's dubiously presented as an every-day occurrence. Short on logic and long on polemics, this pumped-up action pic dashes to a predictable, preordained conclusion. leave a comment --Robert Pardi
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