Vicious and ingenious police flick features Harvey Keitel as an impossibly surly and dysfuntional New York detective on the take. His focus on fine cigars and his prized possession - a Central Park West apartment paid for with drug dealer money are great props for a dirty cop. The story revolves around him and a punk kid (John Lyndon - Johnnny Rotten of The Sex Pistols), who claims to have killed several narcotics cops. A brutal film, not for sensitive viewers.