Shaft

Cool-as-ice New York police detective John Shaft (Samuel L. Jackson) arrests Walter Wade Jr. (Christian Bale) in a racially motivated slaying. In short order, however, the only eyewitness (Toni Collette) disappears, and Wade jumps bail for Switzerland. Two years later Wade returns to face trial, confident his money and influence will get him acquitted -- especially since he's paid a drug kingpin (Jeffrey Wright) to kill the witness.