‘The Enforcer’ takes the difficult road to tell a revealing tale about criminal business practices
Director Bretaigne Windust, helped in some capacity by the more vividly remembered Raoul Walsh (albeit un-credited during the opening titles), along with screenwriter Martin Rackin do their part in pushing the limits of the complexity of timelines in exploring the long and winding road that eventually leads The Enforcer’s protagonist, Martin Ferguson, to snatch his man. More to the point, one of the picture’s more unexpected qualities is the confidence in which it near-seamlessly engulfs the viewer into multiple levels of the past in order to reveal the full pertinent details of Mendoza’s recent crime wave.