Casting

Our movie critics' 10 most anticipated summer flicks.....
4 Hollywood Homicide: L.A. and crime have long had an on-screen chemistry, from The Big Sleep to L.A. Confidential to the odd appeal of Dragnet. This one's about detectives who moonlight (Harrison Ford is also a real estate agent, Josh Hartnett an actor). The good cast includes Vancouver's Bruce Greenwood, who you know will deliver a strong performance. (June 13)
-David Spaner, Vancouver Province 5/11/03

At the same time, an Internal Affairs officer named Macko (Bruce Greenwood) is pursuing a vendeta against Joe, who is dating his ex- girlfriend, Ruby (Lena Olin). And a psychopath apparently connected to both Sartain and Macko is going around shooting people and torching their bodies....... The film's energy-what little there is-comes from Bruce Greenwood as the vengeful Macko. Greenwood is instantly dislikable , giving us someone to root against. Unfortunately, he is not the main villian,....
-James Berardinelli, Colossus.net

Fine casting here with particularly strong supporting performances by Martin Landau, Lena Olin and Vancouver's Bruce Greenwood.
-David Spaner, The Vancouver Province 6/13/03

While Gavilan tries to juggle his two careers, he is also subjected to persecution by a relentless internal affairs officer (Bruce Greenwood) for possible corruption...... Terrific actor Bruce Greenwood (Thirteen Days, Ararat), classic supporter Keith David, versatile Lou Diamond Phillips and veteran Martin Landau are all completely wasted on two-dimensional or irrelevant characters.
-David Trier, So You Wanna Sell a Script

And while Bruce Greenwood (Below) is very good as the smarmy IA department head, his presence in the film seems more like filler in a movie that is already far too long to begin with.
-Sara Michelle Fetters moviefreak.com 6/13/03

Shelton makes sure that each new character has a second to hold sway, and the supporting actors seem glad to take the spotlight without hogging it. They include Keith David as Gavilan's authoritative boss; Isaiah Washington as a slick, self-possessed rap-record entrepreneur; Bruce Greenwood as the Internal Affairs cop who has targeted Gavilan; and Percy "Master P" Miller as an ebullient club owner who wants to buy a classy estate for, oh, $6 million.
-Michael Sragow, Sunspot.net

For starters, Joe is being investigated by Bennie Macko (Bruce Greenwood), an obsessed Internal Affairs detective.
-Sean P. Means, Salt Lake Tribune

Bruce Greenwood is a smug, vindictive internal affairs officer dogging Ford over his relationship with Greenwood's ex-wife (Lena Olin).
-Bob Curtright, Wichita Eagle

He also is being bled by an Internal Affairs honcho with a grudge (Bruce Greenwood, who played JFK in Thirteen Days, but is otherwise one of current movies' foremost sultans of smarm.
-Mike Clark, USA Today

I suppose I might as well tell you, because you'll hear it from someone else eventually, but I've been seeing your costar Bruce Greenwood. And no, it's not just that he's younger than you, or incredible gorgeous. It's that you spend the entire film acting like you're God's gift to moviegoers, like we should be privileged just be in your presence, and you don't need to do anything to court us. But Bruce, he understands what a woman needs -- he's there. He's not just sleepwalking, not just going through the motions, even when it would have been so easy for him to do that, in the clichéd role of the bad-guy Internal Affairs cop. You could learn a thing or two from him.
-MaryAnn Johanson, The Flick Filosopher