underground classic!

Very entertaining movie. Too bad it's *so* obvious that it isn't shot in Philly. License plates are far from authentic and PA neither requires nor issues plates for the front of vehicles, they get simple things wrong (Gulph Road isn't in Philly, it's in Montgomery County, Bryn Mawr is in a different COUNTY much less a different municipality, no PA inspection stickers, the docks look suspiciously like Los Angeles rather than Penn's Landing, etc.) You really have to suspend your disbelief, but it's an entertaining diversion. Now if they had transferred him to Olney, Strawberry Mansion, Fishtown, or Germantown, then the bad-area-ness would have *really* been believable. When you hear of a shooting, 10-to-1 it's in one of those neighborhoods.

One other thing...if you are looking over the water at Liberty One, then you are standing IN THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY. Philly Cops don't have jurisdiction there. True story: NJ cops call for help from Philly at 2am. Philly sends two cops over the Tacony-Palmyra, lights flashing, they help get the situation under control, and head home. Next day, their captain gets a call: the NJ department wants the names of the officers who helped the previous night. The captain thinks to himself, "great, they'll get a commendation or something.". Nope -- the NJ department wants to charge them for bringing guns across the state line. Captain's response: "I don't know who they are and I wouldn't tell you if I did." Like I said, you *really* have to suspend your disbelief.

Okay, last point -- no one, but no one, refers to any part of the city as "downtown". The area around Liberty Plaza is called Center City and everything else is referred to by its old municipality name (Olney, Rittenhouse Square, Germantown, etc.) I understand that calling the movie "Olney" wouldn't work, of course, but they could have made the dialogue more realistic. If an officer gets transferred to Strawberry Mansion, he'd better have his life insurance paid up.

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