When Loos tries to kill Benjy, Ted runs him over to save his friend in spite of what he knows. Sheen is also good, underplaying the villain role nicely and making his character seem like a regular rich guy that just happens to be the leader of a Porsche car theft ring. The next night, Ted has Benjy meet Loos at a warehouse for a payoff. Sweeney is assigned a case that has him working undercover to insinuate himself into the good graces of an auto-theft ring. Soon, Benjy begins to lose focus of the line that separates cop from crook, and starts stealing expensive automobiles alongside the criminals he was sent to monitor. Sheen shows a subtle side that we don't see too often. Ted refuses to go quietly and a gunfight breaks out; Benjy is wounded, but manages to shoot and kill Ted.
Cast: , , , , , , Director: Genres: Crime drama Production Co: Orion Pictures Keywords: , , , , , , , , ,. See if you can spot him! The dealership seems to be a front for a car theft and chop shop operation, and the previous cop who infiltrated it has been murdered. But I guess they had to use him, because of his mechanical acumen with Porsches. Benji drives off, unaware that Ted is nearby, spying on him. That leads him into a no man's land, halfway between the criminals and the law, and as he tries to do the right thing and juggle his conflicting loyalties, a tragic situation begins to develop. And Sheen creates his character as a very complicated young man. He played this role so perfectly, that I forgot I was watching a movie.
You'd think that Sheen would be on the alert for another undercover cop, having just discovered one, but he trusts Sweeney and before long the two men have become friends. He goes to Bracey's house, only to find that Ted has murdered him. It's no wonder since its director and writer, Peter Werner and Dick Wolf, are veterans of the medium. The lieutenant wants him to infiltrate a Porsche dealership run by a rich kid. In retaliation, he kills Frank at a night club. Benjy's first few attempts at stealing cars fail miserably, with Frank's syndicate catching on and slashing his hand as a warning.
The next day, Ted goes to Technique Porsche and finds Malcolm has been murdered. Following the title sequence which sets the violent scene of car crime which forms the backdrop for this film, Peter Werner opens the film with a fairly protracted scene featuring the central character 22-year-old rookie cop, Benjy in his home environment. Soon, Benjy begins to lose focus of the line that separates cop from crook, and starts stealing expensive automobiles alongside the criminals he was sent to monitor. If you love 80s movies set amidst the glitz of 80s L. Well, except to guys like me that is. True, he's rich, and doesn't need to steal and kill. Nothing exciting ever happens to me.
Randy Quaid is seen briefly as Lt. He suffered lacerations to his face and was knocked unconscious. The movie has lots of scenes of Sheen and Sweeney stealing cars, and it dwells on the details of their crimes, and the reckless way they risk capture. The Randy Quaid character was a little comic-bookie, or over-the-top angry, but I guess they had to establish the tension between him and the rookie. Sweeney, is a fresh-faced rookie who spends all of his free time rebuilding old cars. In retaliation, he kills Frank at a night club.
Later, Benjy stops at Bracey's house to inform him of what happened with Loos, and accuses the Lieutenant of conspiring with him. The next night, Ted has Benjy meet Loos at a warehouse for a payoff. Sweeney is also effective as the undercover man who falls for Ann, who happens to be Ted's sister. Charlie Sheen was injured when a squib hardened overnight and was detonated at the wrong time. This envy is part based on the complex hedonistic and idealistic relationships between all the characters that evolves, but ultimately everything relies for its roots on Bengy and Teds crime sprees, something that ultimately must end.
After Benjy fixes Ted's Porsche one night, the two men become close friends, and Benjy becomes romantically attached to Ted's sister Ann. The cinematography of Hiro Narita shows us a lot of Los Angeles shopping malls and high priced stores where the car thieves love to steal the Porsches. Quaid worries that his undercover guy is falling for a con job. This is definitely a guy's movie. And probably not treated as well again until The Fast and the Furious, which almost seems to be a clone of this film, only substituting Japanese Hondas and Toyotas for German Porsches. Even though he was uncredited, he was featured as a waiter in the final cut of the movie.
During a phone conversation at a party, corrupt police Lieutenant Curtis Loos - who was hired by Ted to take out the detective in the film's opening - tells Ted about Benjy's real identity. The contrast between the pair is very much a focal point, the only commonality being their devotion to their own goals - goals which for Bengy at least become very blurred, as Ted gives him the Porsche and the lifestyle that form the focus of his own existence. This movie was also Brad Pitt's feature film debut. There are two things the lieutenant doesn't take into account: The kid really loves Porsches, and he doesn't think like a cop. The deterioration is palpable, and when ultimately the reckoning comes, it does so in series of twists that drive the two friends together something very much cunningly engineered by Ted himself.