Directed by:
Antoine FuquaScreenplay:
Michael C. MartinCinematography:
Patrick MurguiaComposer:
Marcelo ZarvosCast:
Ethan Hawke, Richard Gere, Don Cheadle, Wesley Snipes, Ellen Barkin, Robert John Burke, Lili Taylor, Michael Kenneth Williams, Wass Stevens, Sarah Thompson (more)VOD (1)
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Antoine Fuqua directs this tense drama about three wildly different New York cops whose paths collide in a Brooklyn housing project, where each must make a decision that will change the course of their lives forever. Cynical, washed-up Eddie (Richard Gere) no longer cares about the job or the rules; cash-strapped Sal (Ethan Hawke) sees a shortcut to solvency; and Tango (Don Cheadle) is torn between conflicting loyalties. Ellen Barkin co-stars. (Roadshow Entertainment)
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If it weren't so unnecessarily dragged out, I might enjoy it, but in this case, I just felt like a parade of characters was passing before me, with only the one played by Richard Gere feeling truly interesting. The final massacre is pretty cool, but that's kind of it. Excellent actors in an average to below average film.
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Fuqua knows how to make films, and this time I watched this solid genre detective movie from his work, which doesn’t have any big surprises but follows a tried-and-true formula where nothing can really go wrong. The story is divided into three storylines, each focusing on a different character. The best one was probably the storyline with Don Cheadle, who, as an undercover cop, is supposed to bring gangster Snipes to justice, but as often happens, he grows more and more attached to the gang, to the point where he no longer knows who he really is or what his mission is. Cheadle is a great actor, and he fully utilized his experience here. The part with Gere felt the weakest to me because it didn’t offer a particularly interesting plot. It wasn’t bad, but I would have changed quite a few things. Hawke, with his family problems and desire to steal money from drug dealers, gave an impressive performance. It was clear that things couldn’t end well for him. I liked how all three stories came together at the end, with the main protagonists meeting in the same house. The ending was pretty intense, with no shortage of blood and bodies, and even the main characters weren’t spared. The film had some flaws, but within the genre, it’s still an above-average product. I give it 74%.
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I'm not entirely sure about the reality and credibility of some characters and their roles. Or rather, for the sake of clarity, do Don Cheadle and Wesley Snipes portray the real style of an uncompromising gangster from Brooklyn? It's not just about hitting somewhere on the sidewalk with a Mercedes, wearing Prada glasses and giant Breitlings wrist watches, and having a Gucci belt around the waist, somehow some things didn't fit. What was brilliantly done in American Gangster, for example, is lacking here. Naturally, there are other things associated with that, which I don’t think quite fit, like the behaviour of some characters. It all seems too much for effect, artificial and unreal. It felt that Antoine Fuqua knows absolutely nothing about this area, he just bought a few expensive props and borrowed fancy cars, and BAM!, we have gangsters. The plot is fine, the triple intertwining of the stories is interesting in the end. The strongest scene in is at the end with Richard Gere, fantastic. Otherwise, it's just average with a few weaker and a few stronger moments.
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Antoine Fuqua follows the same line he set out in Training Day, putting his story in the environment of a city full of violence, crime, gangsters, police incompetence and powerlessness, whose top officers are playing their own game and are more concerned with their careers than with doing good. Within the genre, it is above average, however in this category, there is a lot of competition, and Brooklyn's Finest, with all due respect, does not belong at the top. Not so much because Richard Gere acts in it, whom I personally dislike because, in my opinion, he belongs to the category of actors who simply play their role and do not experience it. It is more about general likability, to which Fuqua succumbs, the improbability of certain situations, exaggeration, and the frequency of shootouts because a glimpse of life in Brooklyn looks worse than life in war-torn Baghdad and the film could have been better handled in terms of the screenplay, i.e., the ending is weak. The fates of the three policemen could also have intersected in a more sophisticated way. Overall impression: 65%.
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A Brooklyn mosaic full of great actors. Hawk came up with the goods, as did Don Cheadle, Snipes surprised with his performance - given a good opportunity and he’s still got it - and Richard Gere? I don’t know what made him take this type of role, but he was seriously excellent. In story terms this is slightly below-average (it looks as if it came out of GTA IV), that tries to be unnecessarily violent in some places. But depiction of gloom and despondency works very well.
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