Too much of Class of 83 feels like a retread. The faces are new but the portrayal of the system, corruption, the utter lawlessness of both cops and criminals, is familiar.

Class of '83 works both as a well-realised if a trifle sketchy hark-back at an interesting epoch, as well as an entertainer.

"Class of 83" could have been a great crime film, since the story and the cast were there, but unfortunately, nothing else was.

Class of '83 is an agonisingly generic dirty cop thriller that somehow confounded me every step of the way.