Brooklyn's Finest

MacGuffin · December 09, 2009, 05:01:44 PM

Trailer here.

Release Date: March 5th, 2010 (wide)

Starring: Richard Gere, Don Cheadle, Ethan Hawke, Ellen Barkin, Wesley Snipes

Directed by: Antoine Fuqua

Premise: Three intertwining stories about policemen in Brooklyn.

polkablues · December 09, 2009, 05:11:45 PM

Wait a minute... so I can get "Training Day", "Boondock Saints", and "Crash" all in the same movie??? That will save me so much time!

Pas · December 10, 2009, 07:07:24 AM

weird ass distribution...

Stefen · March 15, 2010, 03:53:49 PM

This was actually good. It's really nothing like Boondock Saints or Crash. It's pretty genuine. Great performances from all involved. The two that I think were the best were Cheadle who plays an undercover cop infiltrating the deepest depths of the NY drug scene and Richard Gere who plays a coward cop 7 days away from retirement.

I guess you could compare it a bit to Training Day (which I didn't really care for) but it has a ton more layers and a lot more going on.

It's pretty awesome. Check it out if you get a chance.

polkablues · March 15, 2010, 05:35:06 PM

I read something somewhere about this movie having some sort of absurd twist towards the end that ruined the whole movie for some people. Anything like that stick out to you?

Stefen · March 15, 2010, 07:19:56 PM

Not really. The twist ending didn't bother me. I guess I could see how it would bother other people since most people would rather have everything tied up after 90 minutes in a tidy cute bow. I like grit, though.

modage · March 15, 2010, 10:05:23 PM

The twist was in the Sundance cut but was removed from the final version.

edison · March 15, 2010, 10:13:39 PM

Quote from: modage on March 15, 2010, 10:05:23 PM
The twist was in the Sundance cut but was removed from the final version.

Having seen the movie, what was the twist?

Pubrick · March 16, 2010, 01:22:16 AM

haha, either stefen saw the sundance cut somehow, or he just invented a twist ending in his mind.

Stefen · March 16, 2010, 01:31:41 AM

The version I saw had a timestamp on the bottom.

children with angels · March 16, 2010, 03:51:04 AM

Whoa, that IS quite a twist.

modage · March 16, 2010, 09:19:19 AM

Quote from: edison on March 15, 2010, 10:13:39 PM
Quote from: modage on March 15, 2010, 10:05:23 PM
The twist was in the Sundance cut but was removed from the final version.

Having seen the movie, what was the twist?

MEGA SIDEWAYS UNIVERSE SPOILERS Gere blows his brains out.END SIDEWAYS UNIVERSE SPOILERS

Stefen · March 16, 2010, 12:14:21 PM

Spoiler.

Nope. Didn't get that twist. Everyone pretty much dies Departed style EXCEPT Gere. Gere was the only character who had any sort of redemption.

edison · March 16, 2010, 12:19:03 PM

Wow, that twist is seriously fucked up.

MacGuffin · July 27, 2010, 09:40:45 PM

Underrated. Great performances all around, but Gere owns this film. He will get a Best Actor nod from me at the Xixaxies. The beginning pulls you in and does right in caring about these characters, even those who are doing wrong are given an understanding. Tension builds and builds until the hour mark where it is so thick you can feel your body wound up. The film's downfall, though slight, is having a somewhat clear idea of how things will end for the characters, given how each of their respective dilemmas are presented.