Some things I liked some I did not.

Best movie ever!

All that we are seeing on the screen is happening with real people, real action sequences in the background, forcing the eye to watch as if we were there.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

This film has it all: The cop, the drugs, the cartel, and a priest(?) The cop troubled by the loss of his family, who works vice, who drinks and doesn't play by the rules. The drugs made into a statue, and put into a church by mistake. The cartel want it back. So the cop and the priest are gonna stop them. However these plot lines are put together with such a lack of skill that this film is irritating from the start.The cartel import and sell drugs. They swear a lot and have guns. Some of them are quite muscled. None of them can fight. No scene involving the cartel is in any way memorable. The priest (Christian Slater) used to be special forces. Neither the cartel or the priest are well acted.Okay, so the cop lost his family but just in case you can't pick up on that there's loads of flashback scenes of family together and too many more of them getting killed. He works vice he licks mysterious white powders to identify them. Yes, it really is that bad. And his drinking is not believable: there's lots of scenes of him drinking alcohol - hip flasks, mixing into coffee, washing down the aspirin while driving, etc - but never as much as would get anyone drunk. He doesn't play by the rules: he goes to a gun fight with only his fists, then he decides to face down a speeding car with armed folk inside shooting at him on foot with just his handgun, then he decides that the best course of action would be to ambush the cartel in the church with just him and the priest. Utter balls.There's lots of shooting and people dying. There's drug use and sex but without any point. Most of it could have been implied and then this mess could have been shown on TV.The end doesn't come soon enough.

The plot: A cop on the edge tries to protect an informant and his young sister after they turn on a dangerous drug lord.Cuba Gooding, Jr, Christian Slater, and Kim Coates have been making direct-to-video action movies for a while now. Although none of them have reached the rock-bottom depths of Michael Madsen's career, it's still kind of depressing to see them toiling in such derivative, low budget B movies. This is the first time that I've seen any of these fine actors actually take on a project that seems more appropriate for Michael Madsen.If anyone in the world is the proper demographic for these kinds of movies, it's me. I have a fondness of gritty, low budget exploitation, and I'm capable of lowering my standards to levels that most people find intolerable. I don't care overmuch about budgets, I'm fairly forgiving of plot holes, and I don't mind a bit of bad acting or bad special effects. However, movies like Sacrifice test even my patience. This is not the kind of movie that's going to give Christian Slater or Cuba Gooding, Jr a comeback. In fact, it's just going to reinforce their "has-been" status.I know that most people don't like Cuba Gooding, Jr's recent output, but I thought some of them were quite underrated. Shadowboxer, for example, was a good movie. Hero Wanted was flawed, but it was certainly enjoyable enough for a direct-to-video release. Sacrifice makes Hero Wanted look like pure genius. I'm beginning to think that Cuba Gooding, Jr has simply given up, and he doesn't even care any more.Sacrifice is for Cuba Gooding, Jr die-hards only. If you have a strong tolerance for B movies, you'll probably find it tolerable, but the only real draw are the B-list leads, who are rapidly falling down into the C-list territory.

So... after awhile and reading bad and normal reviews watched this movie. and i must say it was GOOD! Not brilliant but a worthy watch.Cuba has done a fine job, not to tell all the other cast really played their part well. Has a mix of everything. I wasn't bored or even passing my time. I watched it for the sake of watching it and i am satisfied. Not a time waster of any kind. No nonsense, well plotted movie. The only loose end was the little girl who you can tell didn't really acted properly plus writer or directors fault that when she saw Cuba in kitchen with his Gun and holding belt, she didn't asked him anything about the gun, when in reality a little girl that age would ask it the first time.Movie had lot of moments you thought wont happen, but they did. I enjoyed and if you have nothing to do then do watch it.

This is a seriously good movie. I really enjoyed the action. The plot was really in-dept. I enjoyed the priest, who was played by Christian Slater. He portrayed a realistic priest. Most of the time priests are placed on a higher level. But this one drinks a shot of liquor & shoots a couple of people. Cuba Gooding's family has been killed. He is on a suicidal downgrade. In the process of helping the Heroin dealer and his sister it gives him a reason to live. This reminds him of who he is and what. The head dealers want their property back which has been taken by the young drug dealer who wants out.In the long run this is an absolutely wonderful movie. I have never seen a movie with Cuba Gooding Jr which wasn't great.