Ricochet/For Queen and Country-Double Feature (1989)

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Ricochet (1991)
In this explosive, action-packed thriller, rookie cop Nick Styles (Denzel Washington) has come a long way from the tough city streets of his childhood. Nick escaped to become a cop, while his good friend Odessa (Ice T) became a street hustler, dealing drugs and stealing cars.

Nick's life changes forever the night his arrest of a ruthless psychotic killer, Blake (John Lithgow), is captured on video by a bystander and picked up by the TV news. Nick becomes a media sensation and his career takes off, leaving Blake to seethe in prison, obsessed with hatred and revenge.

But Blake escapes from jail, faking his own death, and starts an intricate, brutal plan of intimidation, public humiliation and murder, while Nick is left helpless, accusing a man everyone believes is dead.

To defeat Blake, Nick must return to the streets, calling on his old friend Odessa. Together they set a trap that pits Nick against the killer in a terrifying confrontation that will leave one man victorious - and only one man left alive.

For Queen and Country
After nine years of serving in the crack Paratroop Regiment, Reuben (Denzel Washington) returns home. He is older, wiser and chastened by his experiences, a very different man from the thieving, brawling soccer hooligan who signed up on a whim all those years ago.

If Reuben had illusions about civilian life, they are soon dispelled when he calls on Fish (Dorian Healy), another ex-para and best friend. Fish lost a leg in the Falklands war and is now languishing, bitter and resentful, in a seedy flat with his wife, Debbie (Stella Gonet), an ever expanding family and mounting debts.

Colin (Bruce Payne), another of Reuben's old mates, who has earned a living by some very dangerous 'ducking and diving', is looking for a tough guy, someone who can handle a gun, and offers his old friend the job. Reuben, determined to stay out of trouble, turns him down flat.

Colin is not the only one trying to manipulate Reuben, Detective Sergeant Kilcoyne (George Baker), a compassionate policeman, is delighted to discover that the stranger in town is an ex-paratrooper. He tries to win Reuben's help in tracing the killer of Harry, the popular local copper. Reuben tries to steer a lonely path between the outlaws on the one hand and the law on the other.

When Reuben hears that, because of a change in the law, he is no longer a British citizen, he erupts in a fit of drunken despair and violence. He calls Colin and agrees to act as the 'heavy' on a drugs deal. Reubens actions will have far reaching consequences.

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