The title doesn't tell the half of it. Not the eighth of it. One clean cop. One caring cop. One sensitive cop. One courageous cop. One diligent cop. One rules-bending cop. One results-getting cop. One unappreciated cop. One sexually magnetic cop. And all one and the same cop, you understand. Though not, evidently, one modest cop, when you notice that the character takes his name from one real cop, Bo Dietl, who authored a collaborative account (with Ken Gross) of his Dirty Harry-ish exploits on the NYPD. Luckily for him, Stephen Baldwin, who plays him, is one of the most believably life-sized man's men on the contemporary American screen. Or to say it another way, one of the most believably boyish of them. The principal storyline, as best one can be extracted from the woven braid, is a variation on the Manhattan Melodrama prototype -- childhood buddies grown up on opposite sides of the law -- and it makes some effective points on the usefulness of friendly contacts in the mafia if you want to find a shortcut to the rapists of a nun. Other strands are the gambling and drinking problems of the cop partner, the covert FBI investigation of a mobster, and the sneaking romance with the mobster's moll. The tiredness is interrupted infrequently: "He don't limp, man," one informant helpfully revises the description provided by another: "He bops." Chris Penn, Gina Gershon, Mike McGlone, Amy Irving; directed by Bruno Barreto. (1998) — Duncan Shepherd
This movie is not currently in theaters.