Every once in a while there's a real good police partner story that's worth watching. I remember Busting way back in the seventies which partnered Robert Blake and Elliot Gould. It was a good story, which I still remember. More recently, I thought Jason Statham and Jet Li worked well together, in the movie War. And there's been plenty others to be sure. I never got into the TV versions of police partner stories though. I never watched Starsky and Hutch, or Chips, or Miami Vice.
But I just happened to find another police partner movie on one of those Cable channels while channel surfing, and I recorded it on the DVR to watch one day, which I did. And I thought it was a very well written story. What attracted me to it at first was Chow Yun-Fat, the Chinese actor who's been in quiet a lot of films. I've liked all the movies he's been in, and so I thought I'd check it out. Mark Wahlberg was the other actor in the film, and I've liked most of his movies, too.
It's called The Corruptor, made in 1999, and it turned out to be well written, well produced, and of course, well acted. Like Robert Blake and Elliot Gould in Busting, and like Jason Statham and Jet Li in War, the two actors, Chow Yun-Fat and Mark Wahlberg worked well together as police partners, and the story was well conceived. It played out with a couple of twists that took even me by surprise. There might have been a part that I disagreed with, but it didn't ruin the story, and it might have even made it more intense. What it did was justified the ending, which I can't divulge, because that would be a spoiler.
If you haven't seen The Corruptor with Chow Yun-Fat and Mark Wahlberg, check it out. Especially if you like police partner stories. It's a good one.
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