Review | Colors of Justice – Generic and Predictable Action Movie on Netflix

Many variables can determine the success of a production on a streaming platform. It could be the fact that there are familiar faces in the cast, the film’s theme coincides with some instantaneous public interest, or even the lack of new options on any given weekend that causes people to choose to watch. a movie or series simply because they believe they have seen everything available on the platform. Well, that seems to be the case with “Colors of Justice,” a new action movie that’s been in Netflix’s Top 10 since its debut.

Alicia West (Naomie Harris) is a rookie cop who has only been at the station for three weeks, patrolling the streets of New Orleans. After ten years of fighting in the war, she is back, but she no longer recognizes her neighborhood or the people she lived with. As a black woman, she directly experiences the dilemmas and contradictions of being a police officer. One day, while covering for her partner Kevin’s (Reid Scott) night shift, she ends up witnessing a scene of corruption by another cop, which involves the precinct’s narcotics department as well as crime boss Brown (James Moses Black). . Alone in her neighborhood and doubting everything and everyone, Alicia can only count on the help of Mouse (Tyrese Gibson), store clerk and cousin of her old friend, Missy (Nafessa Williams).

Filled with cliches, the plot of “Colors of Justice” is totally predictable. If on the one hand it brings nothing new to the viewer, on the other hand it delivers exactly what is expected. From the same screenwriter of ‘Plano de Voo’, it feels like the plot was written by someone outside that core, who had an idea and decided to put it on paper without delving into police reality. Peter A. Dowling constructs a weak story, which seeks to bring the debate about institutional racism in the police to a plot that ultimately neither debates nor solves the problem. Until the end, it’s an hour and forty-seven minutes of a film whose story is always unique, but which only manages to reinforce stereotypes.

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Although it is generic, the feature film by Deon Taylor makes good sequences of action and chases in the streets, on foot and in a car, demonstrating quality and firmness to make films of this genre. The final sequence, shot in the city, is by far the best done, either because it was shot at night, or because the director knew how to play with shadows and colors to build peripheral suspense to his story.

Without bringing anything new and with a taste of “I’ve seen that before”, “Colors of Justice” is an action film very close to Domingo Maior. Through the confrontation between the police and the criminal, the good against the evil, in the end, the feature film does not bring any solution, because, after all, there is no answer to this question which does not undergoes no profound social change. Perhaps its only difference was to put a woman as the protagonist of this story, for a change, because, for the rest, everything is the same.

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