Lou Diamond Phillips is a rogue cop who joins a secret LAPD squad of rogue cops (led by Scott Glenn with team members including Yaphet Kotto, Andrew Divoff and Ed Lauter) called the S. I. S. To help tackle criminals in the act. Amazingly, someone goes rogue. If the title didn't tell you, this is full of cliches. So much so that it could be called Cop Cliche: The Movie. That said, Lester delivers some well choreographed action scenes and the film is incredibly well made (although I did chuckle with traffic continuing as normal outside of a bank where a major shootout just happened).