The Glass Shield 1994 Watch Free in HD

The movie focuses on rookie cop J.J. (Michael Boatman), the first black officer in his squad. Through J.J., the film examines several incidents of racist behavior amongst the cops and within the legal system.

Genre:

Crime, Drama

Actors:

Erich Anderson, Richard Anderson, Thomas Babson, Monty Bane, Ernie Lee Banks, Michael Boatman, Jean Hubbard-Boone, James Boyce, Gaye Shannon-Burnett, Bernie Casey, Linden Chiles, ...»

Director:

Charles Burnett

Country:

United States, France

Release:

1994

IMDb:

6.1

Quality:

Duration:

109 min

Time Out

The movie feels sketchy, as if Burnett chopped the flesh off his screenplay and left us only the bare bones.

June 24, 2006

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Movie Metropolis

Credit writer/director Burnett for having the courage of his convictions, even if the outcome is a film that a lot of people will see as clichéd and stereotyped.

August 13, 2005

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Ozus' World Movie Reviews

An angry anti-cop message flick directed and written to be subversive by angry LA based indie filmmaker Charles Burnett.

March 15, 2013

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Variety

A powerful moral drama that tries to deal with the racism at the root of many problems in contempo American society.

March 26, 2009

Groucho Reviews

The film's ambition makes Burnett's occasional overstatement easy to forgive.

August 16, 2005

Washington Post

It has both ideas and a point of view. But the ideas are far from new, and the point of view is blatantly knee-jerk.

January 01, 2000

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Slant Magazine

Burnett uses a socially discomforting scenario that has only vague implications of deeper malice to initiate a brave portrayal of a Caucasian-centric sort of martial law.

August 29, 2005

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Los Angeles Times

It's a rigorous, angry piece of work, but it misses out on the psychological depths that have made Burnett's previous films among the glories of recent American independent moviemaking.

February 13, 2001

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San Francisco Chronicle

An implausible, wearisome clunker trying to ring true but making only dull thuds.

January 01, 2000

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Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

an entirely honorable - if inevitably doomed - attempt to reconcile Burnett's political and social concerns with the requisites of mass entertainment.

August 09, 2005

EmanuelLevy.Com

Despite studio interference, it's still a decent film, and the association of a black man and a Jewish woman (as two outcasts) is a welcome addition to the genre.

August 17, 2006

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Entertainment Weekly

Ambition is something to respect in an artist, but Charles Burnett's police-corruption drama The Glass Shield is such a maladroit piece of filmmaking that its weighty themes and sclerotic tangle of a plot end up making it a trial to sit through.

July 06, 2010

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