Very recent, 2012, but it seems like late 80s. Three young men become policemen, and soon find out that it's not the world they thought it was. Protagonist Jonas Maldonado or "Malo" is played by Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson, and is talked by Captain Joe Sarcone into following his dead father's steps, and willingly enters this world of corrupted cops, violent, drugged, ruthless cops who actually work for mob boss Baez. He seems to be taking a liking to that new life of easy money and power, but then he's told that his father was murdered by Sarcone himself, because Maldonado was giving evidence against him to the District Attorney's office, and only then he starts thinking "gosh that dirty violent corrupted cop doesn't think of me as a son, as he says, he's not a decent fellow who wants to help me! He's a liar!" and he actually seems surprised...
... I know, right?!? So he's really pissed off and decides to "really" follow his father's steps, even in the 'betraying-Sarcone"part. So it starts the game. He steals money from the mob, kills his sort-of-girlfriend's working-with-the-mob brother, and lets Sarcone think that it was done by his right hand man Lureau, played by Forest Whitaker, a violent cop who kills in order to steal, not caring at all if the murdered is innocent. Then he tell mob boss Baez that it was done by Sarcone! They all believe him! So in the end he ends up with Sarcone and Lureau dead, the trust of the mob boss, and the trust of the District attorney, who asks him not to take Sarcone's place working for Baez, but to work for him instead. Jonas doesn't seem happy at the idea of working for the right side of the law, oddly enough what with him still being a policeman, so he's offered to work for the DA as a freelancer. Hence the title. AND, he isn't sure till the end, so we don't actually know if he'll choose to work only for the good guys, or take the side job paid by the mob.
What we know is that the girl still loves him very much, despite the fact that he killed her brother, but ok maybe she doesn't know this, okay okay, then what about his friend? When Baez wanted to be sure of his loyalty, he did to him what he did to Sarcone years before: back then he told Sarcone to kill Maldonado who was his friend and partner, now he abducted Malo's friend and the girl and told him to kill one of them, there and then. They didn't show us his choice, as if we couldn't guess by ourselves who would he choose between a guy out of his mind and sort of dangerous, and a nice girl crazy about him. Point is, he shot him right in front of her. Better him than me, she'll think, and now it's all forgotten and all that matters is the fact that he told her he loves her and she's done forever..
By the way, he killed his friend like Sarcone did. He was kind of enjoying that corrupted life. He's not that better, we're not sure if he's even a bit better, because it's not sure that he won't work for Baez. He had told Baez before, that he would.Conclusion, my personal opinion is that the end was shit and that they ruined a little chance they had of doing a good b-movie instead of ... this. For a moment it seemed cool when he was playing on so many fields, 'working for the DA' but also lying to Lureau, then lying to Sarcone, then lying to Baez. But that ending ruined it.
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