>>>brings him face to himself to an answer that will kill him or save him.

It’s a standard expectation for the genre that the protagonist’s dramatic journey will eventually deliver him to a life or death moment, a situation of maximum mortal jeopardy. ?So this phrase is unnecessary, excess verbiage.

And it adds no value to the logline because it’s not a story hook. ?It’s not a story hook because:

1] it’s vague; “an answer” could mean any 1 ?of ?a 1,000,001 things. ?Which for the purpose of a logline is to say it means nothing. ? It conveys no specific information to a director or producer as to why he should ?want to read the script ,why the “answer” to be revealed in this script is going to be different, unique from the answers in ?a 1,001 movies already made about detectives solving cases.

2] The “answer”— the Big Reveal — comes too late, ?in the 2nd Act or early in the 3rd Act, to qualify as ?hook for the purpose of a logline. ?Hooks for logline purposes occur in the 1st Act, no later than early in the 2nd Act. ?(See my post for a logline for “The Matrix”?for further discussion on that point.)

So, then, what’s left ? ?”Driven by anger and guilt a suspended detective investigates another murder believing it?s connect to his partner’s death” ?Well, what is the inciting incident in this situation? ?What is the specific and peculiar nature of the ?”other murder” that leads the detective to believe it’s connected to the murder of his partner? ?IOW: what’s the evidentiary hook for the detective in the “other murder”. ?And could this also be the candidate for the story hook for the logline reader?

fwiw

RE:
>>> That?s a thing I don?t want to give in the logline. Like The Matrix does with its logline:
>>>?A computer hacker learns from mysterious rebels about the true nature of his reality and his role in the war against its controllers.?
>>>It?s vague but part of the fun of the first act is the discovering of the mysterious nature of the premise, in my opinion.

Uh, my second opinion on that point. ? A logline’s target market is movie makers, producers and investors, not movie viewers. ?Ergo, a logline has a different purpose than a movie blurb (the kind of one-liners posted on IMDB). ?I don’t think a logline should play hide-and-seek with it’s ?premise and story hook.

imho