Scarred City

This slapped-together, excessive-force flick uses an anti-vigilante springboard to celebrate police brutality. The violent sequences aren't imaginatively stylized; the good-cop vs. bad-cop situations aren't freshly realized; the filmmakers are half in love with what they're condemning.

Although gung-ho police detective John Trace (Stephen Baldwin) has killed four suspects in the line of duty, he's spared an Internal Affairs investigation when Lt. Laine Devon (Chazz Palminteri) selects him for his unconventional task force, SCAR (Select Unit Armed Response). Resented by his less principled comrades like Zero (Bray Poor) who kill blindly without asking questions, ...