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Ambushed

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Ambushed (1998) A terrific supporting cast can't make up for a miscast star in this racially charged action drama. Courtney B. Vance is supposed to be playing a tough but fair cop who gets mixed up in a huge white supremacist conspiracy while trying to protect the son of a murdered KKK leader. But Mr. Vance is far too soft and sensitive for this role, no matter how many guns director Ernest Dickerson has him fire. Other than Vance, everyone else is right at home, including William Forsythe (Direct Hit), Robert Patrick (TV's The Unit), Virginia Madsen (The Haunting in Connecticut), William Sadler (Die Hard 2), David Keith (An Officer and a Gentleman), and the late Charles Hallahan (The Thing '82),to whom the film is dedicated. Also of note are the performances of lesser known but very effective Scott Simpson (New Best Friend), J. Michael Hunter (New Best Friend), and William Flaman as the henchmen of villainous Patrick. This would have been a terrific vehicle for Wesley Snipes; as it is, it's merely passable. Still, you could do worse with that supporting cast.