Brooklyn's Finest

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Directed By: Antoine Fuqua
Starring: Richard Gere, Don Cheadle, Ethan Hawke
Year: 2009
MPAA Rating: R
Theatrical Release: 3.5.2010
DVD Release: 7.6.2010
Plot Summary: A massive drug operation changes the lives of three conflicted police officers (Richard Gere, Don Cheadle, Ethan Hawke) in one of New York's most-violent precincts.

Reviews

CRITICS4.0

USERS6.8


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The film and the actors do a good job of establishing these characters in their own lives.

—Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times

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7
The film and the actors do a good job of establishing these characters in their own lives.

—Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times
6
Not that Brooklyn's Finest is drab or visually lazy. It is, however, a narrative muddle.

—John Anderson Variety
6
...a perfectly adequate cop drama...

—Nathin Rabin Onion AV Club
6
The movie is wounded, but it?s also too tough to kill.

—A. O. Scott New York Times
6
By the end, you'll feel like you spent two hours scuba diving in a cesspool. That likely doesn't fly with the borough's tourism board, but it might work well for you.

—Sean O'Connell filmcritic.com
6
...a bumpy ride...

—Betsy Sharkey Los Angeles Times
5
...a heated-to-boiling melodrama, a sustained eruption of bullets flying, hookers hooking, and cops copping to all sorts of crappy behavior for reasons we're meant to think of as reasonable since they work one of NYC's meanest precincts.

—Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly
5
...a movie you truly want to like, because it reminds you of movies you did, most of them made by Sidney Lumet.

—Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune
5
...more like Hollywood's Most Heavy Handed.

—Claudia Puig USA Today
5
...the A-list cast can't elevate Brooklyn's Finest into something that's more than just OK.

—Peter Paras E!
5
...an entertaining piece of trash...

—Kyle Smith New York Post
4
...three movies in one...Seen it. Seen it. And seen it.

—Robert Wilonsky LA Weekly
4
...three movies in one...Seen it. Seen it. And seen it.

—Robert Wilonsky Village Voice
4
...does indeed provide a new genre twist. This must be the only cop movie ever made where a character is driven off the deep end by mold.

—Peter Rainer Christian Science Monitor
4
...a riot of heavy glances and portentous imagery, a near constant chorus of brooding strings and, in its latter, terminal stages, an excruciating program of narrative elongation that verges on the absurd -- or would, if it were directed with even the slightest hint of self-consciousness or humor.

—Andrew Schenker Slant Magazine
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I hereby sentence Brooklyn's Finest to die unmourned on the DVD scrapheap.

—Peter Travers Rolling Stone

ReelzChannel.com, February 05, 2010

Opening alongside Alice in Wonderland, the star-studded cop drama Brooklyn's Finest is getting a little lost in the shuffle. Is it a viable alternative to the Tim Burton pic this weekend?

"Not that Brooklyn's Finest is drab or visually lazy. It is, however, a narrative muddle. "

— John Anderson, Variety

"...a perfectly adequate cop drama..."

— Nathin Rabin, Onion AV Club

"...a heated-to-boiling melodrama, a sustained eruption of bullets flying, hookers hooking, and cops copping to all sorts of crappy behavior for reasons we're meant to think of as reasonable since they work one of NYC's meanest precincts."

— Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly

"...a riot of heavy glances and portentous imagery, a near constant chorus of brooding strings and, in its latter, terminal stages, an excruciating program of narrative elongation that verges on the absurd — or would, if it were directed with even the slightest hint of self-consciousness or humor."

— Andrew Schenker, Slant Magazine

"...three movies in one...Seen it. Seen it. And seen it."

— Robert Wilonsky, Village Voice

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