Brooklyn’s Finest English Movie 2010Crime Movie
Cast And Crew
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Richard Gere, Don Cheadle, Jesse Williams,
Ellen Barkin, Wesley Snipes, Lili Taylor, Brian F. O’Byrne,
Shannon Kane, Will Patton, Vincent D’Onofrio
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Writer: Michael C. Martin
Studio: Senator Entertainment
Genre: Crime, Drama,Action
Rating: for Bloody violence throughout, strong sexuality,
nudity, drug content and pervasive language.
Runtime: 2 hours 20 minutes
Release Date: March 5th, 2010
Brooklyn’s Finest Hollywood Movie Review ::
If you took WE ARE THE NIGHT out to a bar and sprinkled some Rohypnal in its drink, you’d end up with BROOKLYN’S FINEST. Yeah, it’s that slow. A sputtering mess of a cop movie from the normally kinetic Antoine Fuqua (TRAINING DAY), BROOKLYN’S FINEST wants to be a deep sprawling cop epic like HEAT, complete with divergent storylines and deeply conflicted characters, but holy shit, what a snore. Somebody wake me up when the shooting starts.
First you’ve got Don Cheadle, playing an undercover cop who wants out of the life. He’s dour and frustrated and afraid of getting kilt, the higher ups are pressuring him to take down Wesley Snipes, playing a bad-ass drug dealer named—get this—“Cassanova Phillips”, and you know what? It’s boring. Boring as shit.
Oh, and then you’ve got Ethan Hawke hanging around the movie, making a bunch of Ethan Hawke faces as he plays a cop on the take. He’s looking for one more big score so he can move his family out of their moldy old house, and his plight would be really interesting if it weren’t so fucking boring. Don’t forget Richard Gere, horribly miscast as a grumpy patrolman approaching his last week on the force before retirement. If you’re into drawn-out, extremely awkward Richard Gere sex scenes, BROOKLYN’S FINEST is the movie for you. If your fetish includes watching Gere whine and cry like a fairy while receiving a lengthy hummer from a prostie, you’ll definitely want to own this on Blu-Ray.
The movie starts to get interesting as the individual narratives threaten to collide, but disappointingly, they only end up brushing up against each other on the street. Lackluster and dull, BF will be in and out of theaters quicker than STREET KINGS, I assure you. Unless it just goes straight to Red Box.
