Broken City
USA, 2013
Directed by Allen Hughes
Written by Brian Tucker
Every review of Allen Hughes’ Broken City should point to the same scene as the first and clearest proof that it is a failed film: Billy Taggart (Mark Wahlberg), an ex-cop and private eye who has been on the wagon for seven years, gets drunk. Very drunk, like “throwing half-full bottles at passing cars” and “brawling on the sidewalk with total strangers” drunk. And then – as he is staggering into the subway – he is called away to the scene of a crime that he is completely wrapped up in. The entire crime-scene sequence is played as though Taggart is stone-cold sober, without even so much as a comment by a supporting character that Taggart smells like he’s been swimming in Jameson. If this were a movie in which Wahlberg were playing a supercop type, it might work, but...
USA, 2013
Directed by Allen Hughes
Written by Brian Tucker
Every review of Allen Hughes’ Broken City should point to the same scene as the first and clearest proof that it is a failed film: Billy Taggart (Mark Wahlberg), an ex-cop and private eye who has been on the wagon for seven years, gets drunk. Very drunk, like “throwing half-full bottles at passing cars” and “brawling on the sidewalk with total strangers” drunk. And then – as he is staggering into the subway – he is called away to the scene of a crime that he is completely wrapped up in. The entire crime-scene sequence is played as though Taggart is stone-cold sober, without even so much as a comment by a supporting character that Taggart smells like he’s been swimming in Jameson. If this were a movie in which Wahlberg were playing a supercop type, it might work, but...
- 1/19/2013
- by Mark Young
- SoundOnSight
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