Brooklyn’s Finest

October 28, 2010

Brooklyn’s Finest

Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on October 2010 Melodramatic, violent and often overheated cop opera from Antoine Fuqua (Training Day) follows the lives of three morally compromised officers in the toughest precinct of the title borough. Ethan Hawke needs cash for his huge and growing family; Don Cheadle is so completely embedded in a drug ring […]

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Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on October 2010

Brooklyn’s Finest: ©2008 BROOKLYN’S FINEST PRODUCTIONS, INC.

Melodramatic, violent and often overheated cop opera from Antoine Fuqua (Training Day) follows the lives of three morally compromised officers in the toughest precinct of the title borough. Ethan Hawke needs cash for his huge and growing family; Don Cheadle is so completely embedded in a drug ring that he sometimes forgets who he is; and play-it-safe flatfoot Richard Gere is just trying to make it to retirement in a week. The acting (supported by Wesley Snipes and Lili Taylor) is top-notch, but the eventual coincidental-yet-inevitable intersection of the three cops’ lives seems too obviously screenwritten.