Dirty Work movie review & film summary (2006)
Det. Manning (Lance Reddick) dances with hotel maid Lena (Nutsa Kukhianidze) after she accepts an offer from a man who arranges parties in her hotel in "Dirty Work," a crime thriller set in Chicago. In three days I saw three movies in a row about crooked cops and criminals. All three movies were good to one degree or another, and all three were familiar in the same old ways: I saw guys with five o'clock shadows from the day before yesterday, and long-suffering wives, and corrupt police captains, and rotten politicians, and drug deals, and hookers and cons and ex-cons and high-speed chases and...