Wednesday 18 July 2012

Brooklyn’s Finest (2009) 6/10

Starring : Richard Gere, Don Cheadle, Ethan Hawke, Wesley Snipes
Director : Antoine Fuqua
Running Time : 133 mins

This is the story of a day in the life of three cops; Tango (Cheadle), and undercover cop who is forced to set up his criminal friend Caz (Snipes), Sal (Hawke), a man who will do anything to help his family make it in the world, and Eddie (Gere), an ageing cop with only a week left until retirement.

I was looking forward to the three cop stories coming together at the end in one big explosive finale, but when none of them linked up I was really disappointed. This is just lazy story telling – basically taking three cop movies that don’t have enough substance to maintain three films and combining them into one mediocre movie? Fair enough, the performances weren’t bad, and it was surprising to see who lives and who dies, but when the end credits finally rolled, I did think to myself, ‘Is that it?’.

You’ll like this if you liked : Street Kings



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