![]() As for Jackson, he's barely around, although he does get to show up in a flashback sporting a truly terrible fake mustache. The script does him no favors by giving him extremely dated jokes about Forrest Gump (really?) and Twilight (again, really?). He clearly has charisma, and he's also clearly funny as hell – but you wouldn't know that from watching him here. There are even times when Spiral feels like a parody of a Saw film, but no one else seems to be in on the joke. Rock is woefully miscast here, alternating between either doing what sounds like a stand-up routine or shouting at the top of his lungs. But they won't get much else, save for a series of unintentionally funny scenes that strain credulity. Those who enter thirsting for gruesome gore will get that, and then some. It simply wants to shed a lot of blood – and it does. But Spiral is almost maddening in how little it seems to care about any of this. It could really push some buttons if done right. Spiral is ultimately a film about corrupt, and even murderous cops suddenly facing a reckoning, and that sort of material has the potential to be both subversive – for a Hollywood movie, at least – and timely. The most frustrating thing about Spiral is that there is a better, smarter movie lurking beneath all the nonsense here all the quick cuts and speed ramping scenes all the terrible dialogue that's shouted at full volume. "This guy really wants to be Jigsaw!" a cop says at one point. And oh yeah, there's the occasional talk of Jigsaw to remind us that this is a Saw movie. ![]() Soon, more cops from the precinct are turning up dead in gruesome ways, and the killer sends taunting videos talking about how they want to make the police pay for their many transgressions. This friendship story is dropped almost as soon as it's mentioned. On top of that, the dead cop was a good friend of Zeke's – or so he says. Zeke and his fresh-faced new partner William ( Max Minghella) are called to investigate the cop who got splattered by the train in the beginning, and the two quickly discover this was no accident. Jackson) is something of a supercop, envied by all. ![]() Further complicating matters is the fact that Zeke's father Marcus ( Samuel L. They shun him at every turn, and, in true Serpico style, they even ignored his calls for backup at one point – a decision that resulted in Zeke being shot. Cops are supposed to look out for each other, after all, and Zeke broke that sacred code and crossed that thin blue line. Zeke did the right thing, but to all the other cops in the precinct, he's a traitor. He's developed a reputation as a rat after he turned in his old partner for not just bending the law but full-on breaking it. ![]() No-nonsense cop Ezekiel "Zeke" Banks ( Chris Rock) is seemingly the only good cop on the force. ![]()
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