The Corruptor Critic Reviews

The Corruptor' quickly turns into a good bad-cop drama of fascinating moral complexity.Read the full review

The Corruptor manages to make a meat-and-potatoes action flick into a cunning little meditation on personal loyalty and situational morality. [12 Mar 1999]Read the full review

Beneath The Corruptor's explosive body count is a rock-solid, visually slick crime thriller set in the squalid netherworld of Manhattan's Chinatown.Read the full review

If you're in the mood for loud, fast-moving action trash, The Corruptor is waiting to meet you in a dark alley.Read the full review

It's to the filmmakers' credit that, as an actioner, The Corruptor is a character-driven movie, with several plot twists and turns involving the interactions among the gangs, cops, FBI and Internal Affairs.Read the full review

The movie may be a conventional story of police corruption, temptation and conflicting loyalties, but it never loses its smarts.Read the full review

An interesting plot element or two and a stylish visual approach can't save James Foley's The Corruptor from coming across as a run-of-the-mill cop movie.Read the full review

What you get in this cop drama is NYPD Blue lite. That's not bad. In fact, it's compulsively watchable. But there are no leaps, just fits and starts.Read the full review

After a sensational beginning, the movie loses its way in the late going and somehow doesn't deliver. [12 Mar 1999]Read the full review