BROOKLYN'S FINEST
1 out of 5 stars

brooklyn's finest? well, it's more like hollywood's worst! even the great richard gere AND don cheadle couldn't save this one from failure... :/


this is a movie where hollywood needs to take a lesson in PLOT DEVELOPMENT and a CLEAR STORYLINE because there is a severe deficit in BOTH. it's really just vignettes about 3 NYPD policemen: 1) richard gere's character eddie: the soon-to-be-retired beat cop who just wants to retire and no longer cares about the job 2) ethan hawke's character sal: the desperate/corrupt raid cop whose got way too many kids and a pregnant wife and seriously strapped for cash for a new home 3) don cheadle's character tango: the undercover posing as a serious drug dealer in a brooklyn project and faced with the dilemma of turning on his BFF casanova (wesley snipes). none of the characters really interact with each other, and the entire movie focuses on how each character deals with their lives/work situations.

i thought because this was another work from antoine fuqua, the director of training day, that this would have some potential. it doesn't... in fact, there are times when i wanted to turn this shit off and watch training day again. richard gere and don cheadle are respectively GREAT in their own roles, but that's about all. we could have had a movie with just the two of them, so that should say a lot about ethan hawke's character...or lack there of? oh, ethan... you were so good in training day! what happened to you, man? :/