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HUFFINGTON
03.03.13

Can you make a bad analogy? Sure.
This would be like someone being
arrested in connection for a murder and being promised release if
that person can bring in a worse
murderer. Any will do, as long as
it’s a worse one.

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How does John infiltrate the drug
dealers? He offers them transportation of their product with
the help of his trucks that he uses
for his construction business.

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Does everything go smoothly with
this plan? Surprisingly, yes.
But, then, the original drug dealers that John gets involved with
want to set up a meeting between
John and the high-ranking members of a Mexican cartel. Once the
feds hear this (led by Barry Pepper), the plan changes because
that would be a bigger capture.

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What’s the second lesson that
you learned from Snitch? That
Robert Patrick better hold on
tightly to his reign of playing
“grizzled authority figure,” because Barry Pepper is coming.

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Where does Snitch take place?
Jefferson City, MO. (But filmed in
Shreveport, LA.)

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Is there anything remarkable
about Jefferson City, MO? It’s
the capital of Missouri and was
also mentioned in Lincoln, so
it seems to be having quite the
theatrical moment as of late.
But, having attended college 30
miles from Jefferson City, I can
say with at least some authority
that Jefferson City hasn’t seen
half of the action in its history
than the action that happens
during the course of Snitch.

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Is Snitch wall-to-wall action?
Strangely, no. (Yet my above
description of Jefferson City will
still apply.) And this was a pleasant surprise.

Will I like Snitch? Put it this way: it’s a
lot better than it ever needed to be.

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Is Snitch the best of the action
movie genre films to be released
so far in 2013? Yes. By far.

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Melina
Kanakaredes
and Rafi
Gavron as
Sylvie Collins
and her
son Jason.

What’s the best thing about
Snitch? Well, Dwayne John-