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Brooklyn's Finest (2009) 6.7
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Reviews: 127 user | 193 critic | 33 from Metacritic.com Three unconnected Brooklyn cops wind up at the same deadly location after enduring vastly different career paths. Director:Antoine FuquaWriter:Michael C. Martin |
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Cast
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| Richard Gere | ... |
Eddie
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| Don Cheadle | ... | ||
| Ethan Hawke | ... |
Sal
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| Wesley Snipes | ... | ||
| Will Patton | ... | ||
| Lili Taylor | ... |
Angela
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| Michael Kenneth Williams | ... | ||
| Brían F. O'Byrne | ... |
Ronny Rosario
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| Shannon Kane | ... | ||
| Ellen Barkin | ... | ||
| Vincent D'Onofrio | ... | ||
| Wass Stevens | ... | ||
| Armando Riesco | ... | ||
| Wade Allain-Marcus | ... |
C-Rayz
(as Wade Allain Marcus)
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| Logan Marshall-Green | ... |
Melvin Panton
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Plot Summary
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Plot Synopsis
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In Brooklyn, amid drug deals, violence, casual racism, poverty, housing projects, and corrupt cops, we follow three officers: Tango, African-American, working undercover, believing he's earned a promotion to a desk job but told he has to set up the bust of an ex-con who saved his life; Sal, who'll commit murder to get cash to buy a house big enough for his family; and, Eddie, the precinct's oldest beat cop, a week to go before retirement, assigned to mentor an earnest rookie. Can this end well for any of the three? Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
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Every man has a moment of truth. See more »Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
Rated R for bloody violence throughout, strong sexuality, nudity, drug content and pervasive language | See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
5 March 2010 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Los mejores de Brooklyn See more »Box Office
Budget:
$25,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
£468,279 (UK) (11 June 2010)Gross:
£1,252,604 (UK) (2 July 2010)Company Credits
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(1997)
Written by The Notorious B.I.G. (as Christopher Wallace), Sean Combs (as Sean Puffy Combs), R. Kelly (as Robert Kelly) and Daron Tavaris Jones (as Daron Jones)
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Did You Know?
Trivia
Shannon Kane actually rented an apartment in Brooklyn and hung out in strip clubs to research her role of hooker Chantelle. See more »Goofs
When Tango and Caz are on the roof and Tango pulls out his gun you see that he has cocked the hammer, but then you hear the gun hammer cocking again. See more »Quotes
Det. Sal Procida: [in the confessional] I don't want God's forgiveness. I want his fuckin help!See more »
Soundtracks
"Lovin' You Tonight"(1997)
Written by The Notorious B.I.G. (as Christopher Wallace), Sean Combs (as Sean Puffy Combs), R. Kelly (as Robert Kelly) and Daron Tavaris Jones (as Daron Jones)
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Brooklyn's Finest rests on the strong character portrayals of the lives of three ordinary men struggling at different points in their careers. What they each share is the New York Police Department as a workplace.
Life isn't perfect - it never is. We always have to give something up in order to do something else - it's called choice. Therein lies man's fatal freedom.
Sal (Ethan Hawke) gave up the possibility for flash when he became a cop. He has a growing family with numerous kids but lives in a decrepit, run-down house where the wood mold is causing his pregnant wife lung problems. His NYPD salary isn't sufficient for him to move to a different abode.
Can we judge him? It is a context that bears for some humanity from our part. He will do things in the film, but it is difficult for us to point our fingers from a high horse, for we aren't in his situation. Does the end justify the means?
While doing undercover work in prison, Tango (Don Cheadle) is saved from death by an inmate, Casanova Philips (Wesley Snipes). The event forms a bond between them. Now Casanova is back out and the force want Tango to send him back in.
By taking this shortcut to Detective first grade (read: becoming an undercover agent), Tango is forced to deal with harsh consequences, namely the fact that his wife is in the process of leaving him, and that other than Casanova he has no friends.
Eddie (Richard Gere) is retiring and is a morally decadent seemingly useless member of the force. He gets teased by his younger co-worker cops, and seems fed up with his life. We see him put a revolver to his mouth in the morning.
Even though he is 7 days away from retirement he must take care of young rookies, fresh faces new to the NYPD. Eddie doesn't get along well with them.
It is unclear what happened to his wife, but Eddie now seeks solace in the womanly comforts of a lowly Chinatown hooker.
These grotesquely authentic lives are laid out with the aid of a soundtrack that simultaneously sets the pace and follows the psychological states of the main protagonists. The tone of the music will change, for instance, when a particular character is in a tight situation, a situation where he is again confronted with choice.
All the actors in this film pull off magnificently intense portrayals. Especially worthy of mention are Cheadle, Snipes, Gere and Hawke -- who once again shows that he can enter the mind of a struggling cop like no other.
A steady-paced, involving thriller definitely worth a gander. 8/10.