A cop a few days from retirement. A cop who goes on the wrong side to make money for his family. An undercover cop who is torn between law and his criminal friends. All of these are now the cliches of the cop genre. How do you make them new?
How about have them happen all in the same movie?
"Brooklyn's Finest," directed by Antoine Fuqua, is the story of three cops. They aren't friends, and only have the very slightest connection between each other. In this respect the film is almost an anthology or something similar in structure to Pulp Fiction sans the time shifting. The thing I truly respect about the film's structure here is how Fuqua builds the tension in all three stories at the same time, it becomes almost unbearable both at the middle and near the end. Of course, he is aided by incredible acting. Richard Gere plays a tired, loser, which is definitely a change of pace for him. Don Cheadle and Ethan Hawke do wonders on their end, grounding what could be cliches into a tough gritty reality.
It's a downer of a film, but a good one. Certainly worth a watch. Go forth.
STRANGE SPANNERS being an accounting of strangeness of the warp and woof of my mind For those of you new here, think of this as 1/2 "Night Gallery" Our Motto: Nos somnium quisnam es futurus fatum quod insolitus tutus vos!
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