Ricochet

(1991)

★ 6.1 IMDb · 384 votes

Genres: Crime, Thriller, Action, Drama

Year: 1991

Runtime: 102 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Рассел Малкэхи

Cast: Дензел Вашингтон, Джон Литгоу, Айс-Ти, Кевин Поллак, Lindsay Wagner, Mary Ellen Trainor, Josh Evans, Виктория Диллард, Джон Эймос, John Cothran

Plot

An attorney is terrorized by the criminal he put away years ago when he was a cop.

In this action thriller, Denzel Washington plays Nick Styles, the assistant district attorney of L.A. The film opens in his early days as a cop on the L.A.P.D. During a carnival, master criminal Earl Talbot Blake creates a scene after a botched drug deal. Styles and Blake confront each other, during which Blake is wounded by Styles and later sent to prison. Seven years later, Blake escapes from prison during a parole board hearing to carry out his revenge against Styles, and what follows is a violent series of events that destroys Styles' career. This sets the stage for one last bloody duel between Styles and Blake.