Sporting top-of-the-line production values and confident direction, TO PROTECT AND SERVE is a gritty, above average crime thriller that plays like TV's erstwhile "Hill Street Blues" on testosterone.
Will Egan (C. Thomas Howell) is a burned-out cop whose life is changed after witnessing fellow officers execute a Rodney King-type beating on a perpetrator. Apparently, this nightbreed of crooked policemen have been in operation since Howell's own dad was killed in the line of duty years before.
Although his former girlfriend Harriet (Lezlie Deane), a super cop, reluctantly partners Egan, she doesn't realize that he's working undercover for the internal affairs offic...
Released:
1992
Rated:
R
Length:
93 mins