DESTROYER
(EN CASTELLANO DEBAJO) At last a good American cop movie! The last ones I remember were made in the eighties of the last century: “To live and die in LA” (William Friedkin, 1985) and “the Year of the Dragon” (Michael Cimino, 1985). By a “good American cop movie” I refer to movies that are not just of action (like the “Lethal weapon” or “Die Hard” series), but portraits of the society at a certain time. There was also a third one, “State of Grace” ( by Phil Joanou, 1990) though it was more of homage to Peckinpah’s “The Wild Bunch”(1969) than a portrait of its time. In the case of “To live and die in LA”, the loose morality showed in the relationships with their female counterparts was quite shocking at the time. As well, the two main characters (two Secret Service agents trying to arrest a counterfeiter) even “crossed the line”(1) in a chase scene that has not been surpassed since. As for “the Year of the Dragon”, it was a classic tale of redemption set against the...