Explosiones, ritmo y acción a todo trapo son las características de esta película que se ajusta como un guante a una mano al actor Eddie Murphy. Como en Superdetective en Hollywood, Murphy consigue hacer valorar sus dotes de comedia y héroe de acción. En este caso interpreta a uno de los mejores policías de Los Angeles, Scott Roper, especializado en negociar a pie de pista con los secuestradores más abyectos.
Ahora, un brutal psicópata ha tomado como rehén a su novia y él será su única salida. Con la ayuda de su nuevo compañero (Michael Rapaport) se inmiscuirá en un juego mortal del gato y el ratón en el que le resultará muy difícil mostrar sus habilidades habituales en este tipo de casos. Los amantes de la acción están de enhorabuena con esta película bien dosificada, con excelentes escenas de tensión y fantásticos efectos especiales.
Scott Roper is the best hostage negotiator in San Francisco. His girlfriend Veronica "Ronnie" Tate is a newspaper reporter. Scott and Carmen have a dog named Troy. While listening to a baseball game on his car stereo, Scott is called downtown where a man named Earl is holding 17 hostages in a bank. Scott rescues the hostages by shooting Earl. Scott is then assigned a partner -- sharpshooter Kevin McCall. That night, Scott takes his friend, Lieutenant Sam Baffert, to see a man named Michael Korda. Scott waits downstairs while Sam is in Korda's apartment. Sam asks Korda about a man who deals in stolen jewelry, because Sam suspects that some of the dealer's jewels came from Korda, who is a professional jewel thief. Sam's visit with Korda ends with Korda killing Sam. When Scott hears a woman in the building scream at the sight of Sam's body, Scott runs inside the building and sees the body. Scott wants revenge on Korda, but Captain Frank Solis refuses to let Scott work the case, so Scott decides to work the case on his own. Scott and Kevin go to a horse race track, where they win a bundle of money, then they are called to a downtown jewelry store where hostages are being held. When Scott notices that Korda is the hostage taker, Korda grabs a hostage and leaves in a truck. Scott and Kevin use Captain Solis's car to chase Korda. Korda wrecks the truck, and leaves the hostage behind when he gets out of the truck. Korda then boards a trolley car, and Scott and Kevin start chasing the trolley car. While up close, Scott jumps onto the trolley car, leaving Kevin to drive Solis's car. Scott and Kevin manage to stop the trolley car, and they chase Korda into a parking garage, where Korda tries to hit Scott with a car. Scott and Kevin still manage to grab Korda. During visitation at the jail with his cousin Clarence Teal, Korda orders Teal to kill Ronnie as a way to get revenge on Scott. Teal shows up at Ronnie's apartment that night and attacks Ronnie. Scott shows up and chases Teal down the fire escape, and Teal is hit and killed by a car. On the next morning, Korda escapes from the jail, and soon after escaping, Korda kidnaps Ronnie, luring Scott into a confrontation at an abandoned shipyard.
"Eddie Murphy se aparta de sus habituales comedias en este filme de acción (...) Entretenida cinta" (Fernando Morales: Diario El País)
"La pretensión de dramatismo se frustra por culpa de un guión formulado con inverosímil pretexto argumental" (Francisco Marinero: Diario El Mundo)
"Espectaculares escenas de acción, y con una factura magnífica, para pasar un rato entretenido sin pensar" (Javier Ocaña: Cinemanía)
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