

Keen young Raymold Avila joins the Internal Affairs Department of the Los Angeles police. He and partner Amy Wallace are soon looking closely at the activities of cop Dennis Peck whose financial holdings start to suggest something shady. Indeed Peck is involved in any number of dubious or downright criminal activities. He is also devious, a womaniser, and a clever manipulator, and he starts to turn his attention on Avila.
Acting
Gere's career-best villain — charming, repulsive, magnetic
Direction
Figgis turns LA into a humid fever dream of moral decay
Writing
Peck's monologues are masterclasses in psychological warfare

Director
Mike Figgis
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Gere and Garcia reportedly stayed in character off-set, with Gere refusing to acknowledge Garcia socially during filming.
Released months before the Rodney King beating, the film's LAPD cynicism now reads as eerily prescient of the 1992 riots.