Vice

B-movie stalwart Michael Madsen turns in a no-holds-barred, road-wreck performance in this nihilistic crime thriller, which plays out a variation on the old maxim that there's no honor among thieves -- even if they're cops.

Veteran vice cop Walker (Madsen) has been caught in a downward spiral ever since his wife died of cancer: He regularly drinks himself insensible, picks up barflies when he can and pays for hookers when he can't. But he's still keeping it together at work until a drug bust goes terribly wrong: As part of a six-month-old task force, Walker and his partner, Sampson (Mykelti Williamson), painstakingly set up midlevel heroin dealer Darius Ree...