Antoine Fuqua has been here before, another urban crime drama from the man behind Training Day. Here he's trying to tell three different stories that all intersect in the end. The result is three stories told as one that we've all seen before. Brooklyn's Finest is a cop movie filled with every cop movie clique we've every seen before. Some truly talented actors make up the cast; Don Cheadle, Ethan Hawke, Richard Gere and an out of retirement Wesley Snipes. Sadly though none are able to rise above a screenplay filled with one dimensional characters that is trying so hard to be an emulation of HBO's acclaimed 'The Wire'. The film wants so badly to be raw and intimate that it comes off as being anything but. Fuqua has some serious talent down there somewhere but Im still waiting to see it.
D+
2010
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