Let’s just say mistakes were made and call it a day. Photo courtesy of Nash Bridges IMDb
Don Johnson and Cheech Marin are back as the likely unlikely crime-fighting duo that is always in trouble, always doing things outside the law, but in the end, always gets the bad guy with Nash, on a good day, punching out a superior officer. The new movie is no exception but it does try to focus on a few modern-day issues with veracity while maintaining its gritty, outside-the-lines image and it does a pretty good job of it.
The movie starts off with both Bridges and Marin suspended from the force for an incident involving a takedown gone wrong (but no one died so.) While Bridges tried unsuccessfully to get reinstated, Marin opens his own weed shop and calls it good until a string of brutal, unsolvable murders brings everyone back onto the force, reuniting Nash with his much-hated boss Steven Colton a by-the-book cop whose soft handed ways of handling criminals annoys everyone around him, eventually to the point of even himself.
As Nash reunites with the colleagues he likes, a new recruit named Chloe Zane catches his attention, and it’s soon introduced into the storyline that Chloe is a trans officer who Bridges warmly remembers as the young son of one of his co-workers from his earlier days on the force and who he is more than happy to work with on this case. It was a quick, imperfect way of bringing up a modern-day social issue that showed genuine care and concern.
The murders seem to stem from an extreme underground fight club involving Asian mafia bad guys, eastern European bad guys, and a silicon valley billionaire bad guy working to perfect nanobot technology that can enhance, control, even internally kill its host body.
Talk about turning the lights off before you leave. I’ll just see myself out.
Ultimately it’s up to Bridges and his team to infiltrate the crime ring before anyone else, including one of their own, gets killed.
When it’s all said and done, Nash Bridges is still Nash Bridges, and anything less would be weird. Between the modernized bad guys, the modernized social themes, and the less-than-modern pick-up lines, I think the Bridges team found the right balance for the movie and its loyal fan base.
The official teaser trailer can be seen here
