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...accent in 19th century Oklahoma) and Newsies (Disney's appalling revival of the movie-musical) and surprising failures like The Distinguished Gentleman, featuring Eddie Murphy in a tailor- made role as a corrupt Congressman. Apparently his biggest fans won't accept him as anything but a sassy inner-city cop named Axel Foley...
While his theme offers great potential, however, Brown's storytelling falls far short. The white world in The African Company is limited to a bigoted, apparently Irish cop and a slimy, apparently Wasp businessman. The five men of the actual company are reduced to three -- one who is unrequitedly in love with the leading lady, another who is loved by her but doesn't reciprocate her trust, and an older third who is limited mostly to low-comedic shenanigans. The women are equally stereotypical...
...operations are being handled by a small and overworked group at U.N. headquarters: there is no general military staff, no single body mapping contingency plans and no standing military force that can be deployed quickly. "If the U.S., as a superpower, has discovered that it cannot be a global cop, how can we expect that role of the Secretary-General, with his meager resources?" asks a British diplomat. Despite persistent problems for the U.N. around the world, and his personal abrasiveness, Boutros-Ghali has shown that the organization can play a constructive, perhaps ultimately even decisive, role in the quest...
Forrester has other problems. A career thug attacks her and rapes her teenage daughter. Not very believably, she tracks him down and shoots him, bang-bang. Melodrama ripens as a shrewd cop attached to her department reports his progress in tracking down the killer, who of course is Lily herself. Will he turn her in? Not before he chews some scenery: "I am the law. Not the judges on their high benches too far from it to even smell it. I'm the one who gets shot at. The one who has to inhale the rotting flesh of the society...
...revealing assumption on the part of white officers that in a violent situation, an unidentified black man is a dangerous criminal. It doesn't help that a similar situation took place in Nashville in December, when two white officers were dismissed for allegedly beating a black undercover cop; the two are appealing their ouster...