The title is a pretty accurate description. It stars Harvey Keitel (Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction) as a scumbag dirty cop in New York. This film didn't have much of a plot at all. It's just an illustration of a dirty cop getting lower and lower. He makes one bad decision after another and we see him spiral downward. It not rated NC-17 for nothing, as we get to see several methods of drug use (including needles), some frontal (male) nudity, sexual violence against women (which I guess does leave a little to the imagination), and harsh language to children and adults.The synopsis of the story on Netflix makes it sound like he's investigating a certain case, but it that thread felt incidental to the story because of how little interest he seemed to have. By the end it had some significance, so an actual course of events did emerge, but until then it felt like a bunch of disconnected scenes (I'm not sure I can even call them vignettes). I didn't feel like I got to know any characters very well, and honestly they were pretty much 2-dimensional. The acting wasn't great and the writing wasn't great. In his defense, he didn't victimize others as much as I'd expect the average Gotham City cop to... but he was far from kind and had almost every vice you could expect of someone.
If you've ever wanted to see Harvey Keitel's penis, then this movie is for you. But seriously, it's an illustration of a character, and if that's your thing then you should like this. But I'm a story-junkie so I can only give it about 2 stars. There was one very well done scene later in the film, and I have no idea how it got there, but that brings it up from a 1 or 1.5 star movie.
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