Review of Code of Silence

Code of Silence is basically Andrew Davis' training ground for Above the Law with Steven Seagal. Chuck plays a cop who's so righteous, that he has to do it alone, cause his buddies wouldn't bother helping him, fearing for the safety of their public image. The whole movie rushed in front of my eyes like it wasn't even there. The plot, although interesting, is handled in the same clunky way as Above the Law, where the story's also a little hard to follow and could also be presented much clearer, but at least it had a supercool main man Nico throwing around people left and right. What stops CoS in its tracks is that Chuck's so minimalistic, that it feels like there's no protagonist, as for Henry Silva - not much time spent to show him off either. Code of Silence really is a mixed bag. The style that the story is told is mangled by the style the action is presented (lookout for the robot). Although whenever Denis Farina pops up on the screen the movie sucks you back in, because you expect something interesting to happen. Well, nothing ever did.