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...know Tom Ludlow (Keanu Reeves) is a late-stage alcoholic - when he wakes up, he takes one of many pulls on airline bottles of vodka. Apparently, drinking only improves his marksmanship. When he enters a suspicious house across town, he blows a half-dozen swarthy gents in the general direction of Smithereens. He catches a couple men in the back. Others' brains splatter the walls in homage to Jackson Pollock's red period. After planting evidence on one of the deceased, Ludlow finds a cramped wall recess, with two girls trussed up and cowering inside. They stare...
...Ludlow is the good guy in the gaudy police procedural Street Kings. The only one. "You went toe-to-toe with evil and you won," Tom's superior, Capt. Jack Wander (Forest Whitaker) tells him proudly. "Gimme a hug." Ludlow is the star of Wander's Vice unit, which uses all exigent means, like a fist to the face and bullet in the back, to keep the better organized sexual predators in tow. "You are the tip of the spear," Wander says to Tom. "Who else'll keep back the animals...
...truth, or at least personal revelation, does matter to Ludlow. An ex-partner of his has been killed in a bodega massacre that implicates Tom, and damned if he won't find out whodunit. This will involve getting info on the perps by grilling hood denizens (including Cedric "the Entertainer" Kyles in a fun turn), tangling with a skeptical Internal Affairs Captain (Hugh Laurie, essentially playing House on the streets) and leaving enough corpses in his wake to make the City of Angels seem like Baghdad-on-the-Pacific. It's L.A.P.D.-lirious...
...goes haywire with some pirouetting twists of character, after which the ultimate villain is handed an endless aria about why venality is the only efficacious way to do business. "What happened to just locking up the bad people?" asks Ludlow plaintively, only to be told, "We're all bad, Tom...
...Some human rights observers say McCain's latest position is best explained as a symptom of exhaustion at fighting an Administration that has continuously resisted efforts to clearly outlaw practices like waterboarding. "I don't believe John McCain is comfortable with the current CIA program," said Tom Malinowski, the advocacy director for Human Rights Watch, who has worked closely with McCain and his staff on these issues. "I think McCain just reached a point where he didn't want any more confrontations with the White House. He wanted to win the White House...