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Trailer here. (http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1810028049/trailer)
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.
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!
weird ass distribution...
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.
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?
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.
The twist was in the Sundance cut but was removed from the final version.
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?
haha, either stefen saw the sundance cut somehow, or he just invented a twist ending in his mind.
The version I saw had a timestamp on the bottom.
Whoa, that IS quite a twist.
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
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.
Wow, that twist is seriously fucked up.
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.
ya i agree great performances, from pretty much everyone. if i had to pick a weakest link it would be don cheadle, but he's still pretty good. really good direction too. i think the script could have been better though. i liked the character's motivations (especially ethan hawke's) but it all kind of comes together in an anti climatic way at the end.
I don't know what i think about that original twist. i guess i'd have to see it. i see why gere would do that from looking at the rest of his performance but i kind of don't see the point of the film if he does. it woulda been pretty bleak.
The alternate/Sundance ending sucked, but the new one is great. To understand the sundance ending you had to hearthe crazy deleted blowjob rant. My fave ending is the other alternate though, with Caz burning the paper. He was pretty cool.
Critics say this is a Wire rip-off or "not as good as the wire". That is some dumb shit. We already barely have any gritty cop dramas anymore and those with the balls to do them get taxed as copiers. I want Brooklyn's finest type movies for all cities. It's a great formula with the undercover stuff and drug-money stealing. It rocks.
I had a dream last night that this movie was all about a huge bank robbery with John Travolta as the "mastermind" and Bruce Willis as the "Hero" and I was thinking "This is great! Why did I hate Brooklyn's Finest so much before? It's the best pairing of these two since Pulp Fiction!" But then I woke up.