In this action thriller, Denzel Washington plays Nick Styles, the assistant district attorney of L.A. The film opens in his early days as a cop on the L.A.P.D. During a carnival, master criminal Earl Talbot Blake creates a scene after a botched drug deal. Styles and Blake confront each other, during which Blake is wounded by Styles and later sent to prison. Seven years later, Blake escapes from prison during a parole board hearing to carry out his revenge against Styles, and what follows is a violent series of events that destroys Styles’ career. This sets the stage for one last bloody duel between Styles and Blake.<\/p>\n

He’s a cop accused of murder. And the only man who knows he’s innocent is the killer who framed him.<\/p>\n

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Russell Mulcahy<\/p>\n

Denzel Washington, John Lithgow, Ice-T, Kevin Pollak, Lindsay Wagner, <\/p>\n

USA<\/p>\n

5.9<\/p>\n

IMDb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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