Babbage is the Dirty Harry of social workers - cracking skulls and taking names as he wades through the perverse sex-offender scum on his beat. As he breaks in his replacement, sympathetic lip-trembler Claire Danes, he sinks further into the mire to ... (read more) Babbage is the Dirty Harry of social workers - cracking skulls and taking names as he wades through the perverse sex-offender scum on his beat. As he breaks in his replacement, sympathetic lip-trembler Claire Danes, he sinks further into the mire to save a young girl who may have been kidnapped by one of his charges. There's a good idea for a story here, and Gere's Babbage is an agreeably brutal anti-hero, but Andy Lau's over-stylisation and a by-the-numbers detective plot let the whole thing down. And, sacrilege of sacrileges, Avril Lavigne almost strips, but then is stopped. What kind of director would do that to his audience? Minus one star for you Lau,you tease.

Didn't appeal to me at all. I understand the concept but i thought the script was too disjointed to really impact or gain any kind of emotive response. I did think that Claire Danes played a good role though.

Un pel massa terrorifica, pero bona.

"Identikit di un delitto"

A good movie, even thought it's slow at moments.

Interesting title considering the story. A vigilante (Parole Officer?) dealing with sex offenders who get out line while tracking a serial killer amongst them. Problem was that despite its half hearted attempts to shock Se7en style, including camera ... (read more) Interesting title considering the story. A vigilante (Parole Officer?) dealing with sex offenders who get out line while tracking a serial killer amongst them. Problem was that despite its half hearted attempts to shock Se7en style, including camera filter shots and corpses, Richard Gere struggles to convince in the character hes given. In the end its just an unoriginal serial killers film. (Didnt realise it was Avril Lavigne I was watching though. Good thing and bad I guess).

I feel like this movie would've made a great book, but it didn't really translate into a movie. I needed to know more about the motivation behind the main character's actions.