'Blue Lights' review: Taut tale that seldom strays out of bounds

'We go into this crime scene together - because we're a brotherhood. WITH a banner. See what I did there?' Photos: Handout

Cop shows coming out of Hollywood (hi, The Rookie), or Canada (hi, Rookie Blue), or even our very own Gerak Khas may have painted a particular picture in our minds, over the years, about the position of police officers in a community.

Picture this, then: a place where police officers have to check under their cars for explosives every morning when they're about to leave for work. Or where bystanders don't offer apples to "coppers" but spit on them or throw oranges (the more "off" the better) at their cars or even their heads.