in this next installment, Marquez and Ben get a call stating that a hospital has been broken into. they drive over and find the 15 yr old girl who they helped deliver her baby. she is on the ground, brutally beaten and she says her baby was stolen. after finding a couple clues around the hospital, they narrow it down to one suspect and drive off to his house after they get his address. they find the culprit in the living room, who happens to have a friendship with marquez. according to marquez, he used to be a gangbanger, but is now trying to set his life straight. the retired gangbanger tells them that while working at the hospital earlier that night, the girl came in and tried selling her baby to him so she could buy crack-cocaine. he said then that his mind went blank, and went into a rage, badly beating her, and taking her baby back to his house because he thought it was the right thing to do.he returns the baby to them after holding him one last time.

Marquez and Ben got a call from their police radio that there are screams coming from an apartment and so they arrive on the scene to find that a 15 yr. old black girl is giving birth to a baby on her apartment couch. they both manage to deliver the baby after a while and take her to the hospital. then they get another call saying they're wanted on a riot scene a couple miles away. they get to the scene and end up having to fight a giant 6 foot 7 guys who is practiclay invincible. he gets pelted with beanbag shotguns, zapped with tazers and hit with batons but he still won't be defeated. he grabs a policewoman and literlay rips off half her face with his teeth, and after 4 hits to head from marquez's baton, he drops the police woman and falls to the pavement.

Benji starts working at the reception desk for his dad's lawyer business. One day a man named Darius walks in for his appointment, he gets signed in by Benji, but he becomes interested in what darius' motives are so he evesdrops on them while they're talking in his dad's office. He finds out that Darius is actually a criminal who pushes drugs onto the streets, and then has his goons collect the cash and give it to him. but one of his goons is stealing a share of his drug money and Darius killed him already, but in court, he wants to label it as a "tragic accident" and so he needs a lawyer to back him up.

My Civil Action Review

A Civil Action Review
Ian Johnson
English 10
11/25/07
The movie A Civil Action is about a lawyer named Jan Schlichtmann who investigates a case involving eight families whose children died of leukemia when two large companies dump toxic chemicals into the water supply of the small town in Woburn, Massachusetts. At first Jan thinks it’s a case that will bring him no profit at all, and that it’s just a waste of his time, but he soon finds out the case is worth millions. The case becomes his obsession and to win the case, he ends up risking his friends, his house, and ultimately, his career.
The movie’s actors were very good at their parts. In my opinion they projected themselves very dramatically and made the movie seem real. Jon Travolta was definitely a perfect actor to play out Jan Schlichtmann because Travolta is kind of a big and intimidating looking guy, and to put him in a fancy suit, tie and then combine that with his intimidating appearance makes him look just like a big time lawyer. The set was also very good in the movie. The places where Jan interviewed the factory workers were all very fancy looking, the various tables and desks seen throughout the film looked very sophisticated when the lighting reflected off the polished mahogany wood finish of the furniture. The set definitely added to the effect that the characters in the film were wealthy.
The lighting throughout the movie was also a pretty good aspect of the film to point out as well. The scene when Jan’s friends sold all of their possessions and they were all sitting in the dark room is a good example. Jan was sitting on a chair while his colleagues were yelling at him, and there was a thunderstorm outside. Then after arguing with Jan, one of his friends left the room in rage. Then Jan was left by himself in his chair while the lighting flashed outside, and with each flash of lighting, you were able to catch a look at Jan’s blank expression as the scene faded out. This scene was definitely well done and projected the mood that Jan was in. For the most part the camera shots were pretty pleasing, but there were a couple of times where I thought that the shots were a little weird. But the editing, duration of the shots, and the musical score were all pretty good.
This movie is a lot like the book All My Sons in one main comparison. The character Joe Keller has almost the exact same personality as Jan Schlichtmann in A Civil Action. They both are obsessed with money, and they both have high goals that they will risk anything to achieve. For Jan, it was his million-dollar case, and for Joe, it was the money he earned after the bombing. Yet despite both of them having their selfish dreams, they both crash and burn in the end and end up hurting themselves, and the people around them in the process.
In conclusion, this was a very well done movie. The actors were top notch, depicting and playing out the image of their characters perfectly. The music was sad and beautiful, and it definitely added to the mood. The lighting and set were both fitting as well. My only complaint with the film was that its plot was complicated in that it involved a lot of courtroom procedure of which I have no knowledge. The dialogue involved a lot of courtroom business terms that I didn’t know so I couldn’t really figure out what was going on in most of the courtroom scenes. This movie is pretty much a classic for anyone who knows anything about law and courtroom business and such. But if you don’t know anything about prosecution, law firms, or colloquy, then stay away from this movie.