Concrete Canyons

Cookie cutter movie. Standard ex-sheriff haunted by the past drowing in a bottle. The storyline isn't horrible and with a better actress, the movie might have been decent.

Good background noise while wrapping gifts, but OMG, the detective's (Kincaid) acting is so forced and fake that it's like nails on a chalkboard. She tries to come off as authorative, but it doesn't work AT ALL! Her lines are ridiculous.

Great that the detective is a woman, bad that they make her character so dumb. So tired of cop shows making the female detectives out to be clueless so they can be rescued by the manly hero.

This writer made the lead detective look stupid in his quest to cause conflict between her and nick. She overlooked obvious clues so that the conflict could continue. Horrible, horrible writing. I will never watch anything written by Breyer Freed again. I'm not a writer but I promise you I could have written a better script. Starting with having the Kincade work with Nick once she discovered that he had substance. This movie made kincade look as bad as the criminals nick was chasing down in that she didn't care if she caught the right guy or not. And don't get me started on the music. I suppose that's a Canadian thing.

When ex-sheriff and expert tracker Ben Sloan learns his estranged son is wanted for murder he travels to the concrete canyons of Chicago to help. He wins the grudging support of detective Susan Kincaid, meets his son's wife and child and pursues the evidence to find the true killers.

It's the kind of low budget production where no cliché is left unturned but everyone delivers a decent performance. It seems a little underwritten towards the end and never delivers the physical edge that is hinted at but maybe they had to tone it down for midweek afternoon consumption and lost their way a little bit.

Overall, a watch-able little TV movie. Indeed, if they wanted to run a few more stories with Scott Patterson and Polly Shannon as the ex-sheriff and detective respectively I'd probably watch them.

Great script and decent acting. Retired sheriff Sloane is a badass and has been out of touch with his son for three years. His son is accused of murder so he goes to Chicago to track him down. He does his own investigation and runs into trouble with the local police. There is a lot more this which makes it interesting, but don't want to spoil the movie.

A retired rural sheriff goes to the big city to clear his son of suspected murder ... along the way he meets a snot nose wet behind the ears female detective that couldn't smell manure on her shoes ... he also learns his son hes been married for 2 years and he has a grandson ... from his observations at the crime scene he derives the info he needs to start solving the case ... he's an accomplished law man and will get to the answers ...