Boiling Point (1993)

Directors

James B. Harris

Cast

Wesley Snipes, Dennis Hopper, Lolita Davidovich, Viggo Mortensen, Seymour Cassel, Jonathan Banks, Christine Elise, Tony Lo Bianco, Valerie Perrine, James Tolkan, Paul Gleason, Lorraine Evanoff, Stephanie Williams, Tobin Bell, Bobby Hosea, Dan Hedaya, George Gerdes, James Pickens Jr., Rick Dean, Mark Phelan, Nancy Sullivan

The story

The film opens in Los Angeles with Treasury Agent Jimmy Mercer and his partner Brady doing some undercover work, when Mercer's fellow agent is shot and killed by a new man, Ronnie, whom criminal Rudolph "Red" Diamond pulled out of jail. Now on a snap of anger and thoughts of revenge, Mercer wants to find the killer and take him down before he gets transferred to Newark, New Jersey. Although a cop and close colleague claims over dinner that Mercer must do it "by the book", Mercer replies with, "When I'm done with this motherfucker, I'm gonna put him in a box.....

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