Let me take that back. Go ahead and watch it, but only by following these steps:

1. Have somone pay for your ticket.
2. Make sure to bring a handheld system with you (preferably a Nintendo DS) and a good game (like New Super Mario Brothers).
3. Watch the first 15 minutes of the movie. Nice cars and extreme violence; the way all movies should start.
4. Leave the theater and fire up your NDS from step 2. Play for the next 1 hour and 15 minutes.
5. Re-enter the theater and watch the last 30 minutes. Enjoy the action and firefights.

What bugged me about this movie is that I wanted to like it. I like Heat and Collateral, so I figured that this movie would fall in line with those. The two actors look like a great modern-day version of the detectives from the TV show. The firefights were so loud and lifelike that I thought that one of the bad guys was sitting next to me shooting at the screen.

When I mean loud, I don’t mean like 80s action movies loud. I mean like there are people in the theater surrounding you and shooting at each other. If you go see this movie, it should be for the gun fights (all 2.5 of them). The story, if it is there, was totally lost on me. I didn’t understand anything that anyone was saying; maybe it was all the loud gunshots. I thought everyone was speaking English, but they spoke so quickly, so low, and so full of police/drug cartel jargon that I just couldn’t follow what was going on.