Brooklyn's Finest (2009)

Three unconnected Brooklyn cops wind up at the same deadly location after enduring vastly different career paths.

Director:

Antoine Fuqua

Writer:

Michael C. Martin

Stars:

Richard Gere, Don Cheadle, Ethan Hawke

1 win & 10 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Richard Gere	...	Eddie
Don Cheadle	...	Tango
Ethan Hawke	...	Sal
Wesley Snipes	...	Caz
Will Patton	...	Lt. Bill Hobarts
Lili Taylor	...	Angela
Michael Kenneth Williams	...	Red
Brían F. O'Byrne	...	Ronny Rosario
Shannon Kane	...	Chantel
Ellen Barkin	...	Agent Smith
Vincent D'Onofrio	...	Carlo
Wass Stevens	...	Det. Patrick Leary
Armando Riesco	...	Det. George Montress
Wade Allain-Marcus	...	C-Rayz (as Wade Allain Marcus)
Logan Marshall-Green	...	Melvin Panton (as Logan Marshall Green)

Storyline

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; 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?

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Plot Keywords:

corrupt cop | catholic | new york city | police detective | police officer killed | 

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Taglines:

Three officers, one bloody night.

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Genres:

Crime | Drama | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for bloody violence throughout, strong sexuality, nudity, drug content and pervasive language

Details

Official Sites:

Official site Official site [France]

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

5 March 2010 (USA)

Also Known As:

Los mejores de Brooklyn

Filming Locations:

Avenue R & East 15th Street, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$17,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$13,350,299, 7 March 2010, Wide Release

Gross USA:

$27,154,426, 16 May 2010

Company Credits

Production Co:

Millennium Films, Thunder Road Pictures, Millennium Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

132 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital DTS SDDS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Antoine Fuqua had always wanted to work with Will Patton since seeing him in No Way Out (1987).

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Goofs

Tango talks about getting a speeding ticket from a state trooper on Brooklyn's Belt Parkway. But the Belt is normally patrolled by the NYPD Highway Patrol, a city force.

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Quotes

Gutta: Giuliani ain't clean up the city. Video games and television did. That's what cleaned up the streets. Come on, man, 'cause ya'll remember when everybody was outside. If you was two years old, if you was a hundred and two, you was outside.

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Connections

Featured in The Rotten Tomatoes Show: Cop Out/The Crazies/A Prophet (2010)

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Soundtracks

The Great Pretender
(1955)
Written by Buck Ram
Performed by The Platters
Courtesy of the Island Def Jam Music Group Under License From Universal Music Enterprise

User Reviews

Gloomy and Bitter Police Story

In Brooklyn, New York, the veteran policeman Eddie (Richard Gere) is a bitter and disillusioned lonely man that will retire in seven days. The catholic dirty detective Sal (Ethan Hawke) is a family man in despair that needs to raise money to buy a better house for his family. The undercover detective Tango (Don Cheadle) is affected by the long period he has been working infiltrated in gangs and has requested to be transferred to an office. Their lives and fates are entwined when Eddie retires and sees a missing girl that has been kidnapped by sex traffickers and he has to take a decision; Sal has to make the down payment of the dreamed house and he does nit have enough money; and Tango is assigned to frame the drug lord Caz (Wesley Snipes) that saved his life years ago and has become his friend.

"Brooklyn's Finest" is a gloomy and bitter police story with a cast that is a constellation of stars, some of them with minor parts. I watched this film with great expectations, but unfortunately the screenplay is not original, too long and sometimes confused. The three stories are very well known by viewers of this genre and the narrative is cold, without emotions. The director Antoine Fuqua could (or should) have made a better feature with the available budget and cast. My vote is six.

Title (Brazil): "Atraídos Pelo Crime" ("Attracted by the Crime")