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Brooklyn's Finest (2009)

Drama | 140 minutes
3,19 1.379 votes

Genre: Drama / Crime

Duration: 140 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Antoine Fuqua

Stars: Richard Gere, Don Cheadle and Ethan Hawke

IMDb score: 6,7 (68.500)

Releasedate: 4 March 2010

Brooklyn's Finest plot

"This is War. This is Brooklyn."

All hell breaks loose after a young black teen is shot by police in New York's Brooklyn borough. In these dire circumstances, three seasoned cops experience the darkest years of their careers: a worn-out local police officer (Richard Gere) just days before his retirement, a corrupt narcotics cop (Ethan Hawke) struggling to make ends meet, and a undercover cop (Don Cheadle) who must choose between his loyalty to the Corps and his friends from the underworld… Three seemingly independent stories that turn out to be connected.

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Movsin

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The common thread in this 3-story film is the very mediocre appreciation enjoyed by police officers who nevertheless put their lives on the line, day in, day out.

This substructure makes the film a bit stronger than most "police versus crime" films.

Of course there are the classic ingredients that make it cliché, but on the other hand you can count on the solid acts of the main characters. Especially Ethan Hawke puts down, in my opinion, a strong and expressive interpretation.

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Lovelyboy

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Typical Fuqua product with grim settings, a lot of crime and of course the boundaries that are blurring with most involved. However, the level of Training Day or another comparable film as Narc is not reached, yet it is a fine product.

Characteristic are the moral dilemmas and private problems that the men encounter and especially the scarce appreciation and moderate salaries. Especially in the case of Cheadle who is searching where his loyalties lie, and Hawke who goes way too far in what he considers pure necessity. As far as I'm concerned, Gere is the unknown, his introduction is telling, but that's about it. Burn out, burn up...but why? Because he has to get out or because the job has demanded so much? More could have been done with this. That the two of the former fall victim to their own faulty moral compass, while the latter just wakes up from its daily lethargy to act, is best for the script and is well executed.

A more than fine police film is the result with grim settings, ditto atmosphere, what a bunch of crap and excellent performances by Cheadle and Hawke. Ellen Barkin may also be there, but keep in mind that more could have been done with the character Dugan. Excellent soundtrack also with Jefferson Airplane and Deep Purple as eye-catchers. In the end, as far as I'm concerned, a great film that I think is a bit underrated in terms of IMDB rating.

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J. Clouseau

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An old-fashioned police movie always works. Brooklyn's Finest is beautifully portrayed, as if you are right in the middle of it and strolling through the gray streets with it. Too bad the screenplay is so thin. At times it seems penned like a piece of fanfiction by someone who uses the best ideas from Traffic, LA Confidential, The Departed and Fuqua's own [ i]Training Day[/i] put together. The tired cop in the last week before his retirement, numbed by the violence he has always witnessed, the cop who pushes the boundaries between right and wrong and the mole who invades a gang and no longer knows what is right and wrong: it doesn't get bad anywhere, but we've all seen it. The actors clearly want to convince, but collide with the clichés and the little meaningful dialogues that they are thrown. A potential classic thus becomes simply a film to stretch out while the world is locked.

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