I own this movie. It is very entertaining and I dig the director. He did other classics like I COME IN PEACE and ACTION JACKSON.
However, Huff/Stone was supposed to do a few things:
-Get a witness (she died) -Nail bad guys during a drug buy (he destroyed 1 000 000$ worth of confiscated dope) -Prevent an assassination on the DA (that failed miserably)
So this has to be the worst cop ever.
Still a most entertaining movie.
-- Personal insults have no place in smart discussions.
Nah, Keanu Reeves' character in Point Break, Johnny Utah, easily beats Huff here in the ineffectual department. Dude literally doesn't accomplish a thing and gets a ton of people killed in the process.
Yeah, but if I recall, the FBI wanted to go in and bust them way before, but Stone wanted to stay undercover. The end result was a massacre of government officials, pure carnage at the courthouse, and zero arrest. He essentially accomplished nothing.
He'd be lucky if he doesn't end up in prison himself after a clusterfuck of that magnitude. The governor is dead, multiple judges are dead, probably a fuck ton of innocent bystanders, and that courthouse was a ruin. The bad guys all dying would not overshadow all that.
This is not a situation that's gets the cop involved a medal and a handshake. Boz and probably three rungs of FBI leadership above him are all about to be sitting in front of a grand jury getting reamed.
We would have a sequel nearly identical to Riki-O if that happened. Give the man a transfer on a plane and the shit gets up there with CON air and Snakes on a plane.