In this gripping thriller from Leaving Las Vegas director Mike Figgis, Andy Garcia stars as an Internal Affairs investigator who's determined to prove that fellow police officer Richard Gere is corrupt with fingers in a lot of iffy pies. Gere - who had only been in critical and commercial flops throughout the 1980s, despite the success of An Officer and a Gentleman in 1982 - is especially good as the dishonest and often violent policeman. Indeed, it's probably true to say that this is the movie responsible for reviving both his career and his leading man status. Gere's nastiness as the unscrupulous Peck is something of a revelation after years of pretty boy roles, and the vendetta that develops between him and the perpetually smouldering Garcia enthrals and repels in equal measure.

Keen young Raymold Avila joins the Internal Affairs Department of the Los Angeles police. He and partner Amy Wallace are soon looking closely at the activities of cop Dennis Peck whose financial holdings start to suggest something shady. Indeed Peck is involved in any number of dubious or downright criminal activities. He is also devious, a womaniser, and a clever manipulator, and he starts to turn his attention on Avila.