BROOKLYN’S FINEST REVIEW

What do you get if you lump together a couple of come backs and an interweaving story together about cops in Brooklyn? Well, you get the undercover cop (Don Cheadle) , the 7 days from retirement cop (Richard Gere) and the will do anything for money, but its for a good reason cop (Ethan Hawke). Oh did I mention Wesley Snipes?

Brooklyn's Finest follows the story of 3 cops, all in very different divisions who ultimately end up in the same location after meandering around the place for over an hour and a half. In pure Danny Glove style, Eddie (Gere) is 7 days from retirement and ends up taking a new recruit or 2 on the job, and things go wrong. Eddie is also obsessed with Hookers and comes across as he hates life in general, given he’s been 100 years on the job and never accomplished much.
Tango (Cheadle) is an undercover cop, deep within enemy lines or something and is steps away from completely turning to the darkside with Wesley Snipes, who plays the uber crimelord Caz.
Sal (Hawke) is married with a small army of kids, living in a mould infested house with a wife who is pregnant with twins. He’s desperately trying to move the family to a non mould infested house before they all die and is an opportunist when it comes to accumulating cash. If he does a bust and there’s money on the table, he’ll chance his arm and take it.



This isn’t a bad movie, it’s your standard cop thriller which attempts to go down the interconnecting story line road, ala Crash. It works for the best part, but I couldn’t help but feel the whole thing was just being done for the sake of it. You know, lets make this a bit complicated, but it’s shallow complication and anyone with half a brain can see that! But as I said, it’s not a bad movie and it’s cast, while full of comebacker’s do a pretty fine job of keeping your eyes fixed on the screen. I’m not a fan of Gere, and to be honest his performance for me was good, but the weakest of the bunch. Ethan Hawke is superb here, although his constant sniffing convinces you he must be shoving grams of coke up his nose every 30 seconds. Snipes, in his first major role since Blade: Trinty way back in 2004 has obviously worked his ass off because he is very watchable here with a pretty solid performance.

Overall Brooklyn’s Finest is enjoyable, and it meanders away with a consistent pace, but if you miss this at the cinema I wouldn’t be losing too much sleep over it!