Out of Time

RS: 3of 4 Stars

Documentary

It's fun to watch Denzel Washington play fast and loose as a Florida police chief who gets framed for a double homicide because he can't keep his dick in his pants. He cheats on his babe-cop wife (Eva Mendes) with a babe cancer patient (Sanaa Lathan). Director Carl Franklin squeezes tension out of a formula script, and the erotic heat steams over the lapses in logic. Forget the extras (they're standard blather), it's the charged atmosphere and dirty sex that count. What more do you want from a DVD on a chilly night?

PETER TRAVERS
(January 7, 2004)