Right from the start, the viewer is shown just how corrupt Cage’s Terence McDonagh is when he steals dirty pictures from a fellow officer’s locker and calls a prisoner “shit turd.” His downward spiral only goes downwarder when an on-duty back injury leads him to a perilous Vicodin addiction. It’s only a matter of time before McDonagh finds solace in a vial of crack or a bump of heroin. It’s like a very special episode of Blossom. OK. Not that bad.
McDonagh’s addiction leads him to begin raiding the drug stash in the police evidence room, placing wild bets with his nervous bookie (played by Brad Dourif), and acquiring a prostitute that he can call his own, Frankie (Eva Mendes). In the midst of all this addiction and dishonesty, McDonagh is investigating the murder of a family of Senegalese immigrants.

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