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A solid, bare-knuckle action-thriller from Richard ‘Lethal Weapon’ Donner that avoids most of the genre’s clichés and boasts a commendably dishevelled performance from Willis, as a washed-up NYPD flatfoot dissolving in self-loathing.

Donner, working from a script by Richard Wenk, has fashioned an economical cops-and-robbers vehicle that moves with all the predictability of a spoonful of mercury.