Overlong and overwrought with drama and grittiness. I can see that the story tries to pay tribute to New York cops in that they are stressed, overworked, underpaid and disrespected, but the films protagonists as played by Ethan Hawke, Don Cheadle and Richard Gere are completely unsympathetic.

People talking over each other: The Movie

A very stupid movie. Wood mold lol.

pretty cheesy, but still fun to watch just once.

A very compelling movie

Dark, sinister and weirdly disconnected without any real emotional tense - just a lot of void.

By stepping up his game, Fuqua's gone from his usual bullcrap to horsehockey.

I'm pretty sure Richard Gere thought he was in "Brooklyn's Whiniest".

Gere took so much out of this movie he's a very bad actor.

Fuqua takes a "Crash"-course in making a multi-threaded movie with each main character sharing the same motivation - "wanting out". I was hoping to see more take place between the threads before they converged in the end. I thought Cheadle's character / story was the most interesting and that Hawke's character had good motivation. I felt no sympathy for Gere's character and his involvement with the end was a total cop-out. By the end, I think audience shares the same feelings of "wanting out".

The movie has multiple protagonist whose who are all cops and they all converge. The film seems to be tense always but is messy. The story lacks substance and is predictable. It could have been really better if had a better story. Below average movie.

"Watching an Antoine Fuqua film can be exhausting; the Training Day helmer directs every scene as if it's the most important thing that ever happened." - Andrew Schenker

pretty generic cop/crime drama, too bad d'onofrios role was so short, he would have deserved a decent part

50.375

Don Cheadle gives an excellent performance in this film and Ethan Hawke is also good. On the opposite side Richard Gere is miscast. The plot revolves around 3 different cops and it makes for an interesting movie. Overall this is a good cop drama with a few flaws.

Decent film about people with various troubles living in each others vicinity. Found this film surprising for its nonstandard storyline.

Brooklyn's Finest does indeed provide a new genre twist. This must be the only cop movie ever made where a character is driven off the deep end by mold.

Just when you think it can't possibly get any worse...

Crash 2

It's appropriately gritty, and soaked in the kind of palpable tension Antoine Fuqua delivers so well, but Brooklyn's Finest suffers from the comparisons its cliched script provokes.

Crime drama about three New York City policemen whose lives converge over the course of a week through their involvement in a massive drug operation in Brooklyn. Good actors and a talented director doing what they can to bring the truth to a script that's mostly bogus... Martin has made those stories so tonally similar, and grimly determinist, the three-sides-of-the-same-soul strategy dies on its feet.

I was surprised how much I enjoyed this flick, the movie is full of bad cops but its not all gloom.

Actually liked this one, decent acting all over. No points for originality, but I never asked for that anyway.

Boring and aimless.

This movie was so cheezy with all the stupid stereotypes. But i did found some to be so over done it was funny. This movie is just trying to make all cops look bad. The alcoholic, Catholic cop that steals and kills, and finally the undercover cop whos beginning to wonder whats right and wrong. Nothing new here but couple of laughs.

Decent cop film, even if it's treading on familiar territory. Oh, and good for Wesley Snipes for making a comeback.

Good film.

Not a shed of originality to be found here. You will probably like this if you haven't seen many movies, but I have, and it's just not interesting anymore. Fuqua doesn't realize that we are now living in a post Wire world so the standards for cop dramas are infinitely lifted. When the 3 cliches do interact with each other it doesn't feel authentic at all, you can tell some horrible screenwriter wrote it. Overall, it was just a giant waste of time that we've all seen a hundred times before.

Why did i pay $9 to see this? I saw this movie 100 times before, except without the hyperbole.

Incredibly cliched.

Wallowing as it does in the worst pigsties of Brooklyn, you see a lot of it coming, but stick with it. Those are there to set up the parts you don't see coming, and I'm not talking about plot twists. This slow burn is the answer to "No Country For Old Men". Superb cast, including Ellen Barken as about the meanest woman I've ever seen portrayed. Interesting side note, AIW which opened the same weekend didn't use the song "White Rabbit" (rightfully so), but this did, and to great effect.

Treats what would be an historically bad week for the NYPD as simply the average run. Fuqua's return to the precinct of Training Day, opposite coast, holds the attention about as pleasurably as a thumbscrew (if you can imagine it). Hawke's purpose, his function, seems to be to make the other cast members look good in comparison, and from that angle he succeeds spectacularly.

This film was exactly the type of film that really shows the ins and outs of humanity, these were Brooklyn cops struggling to keep up with everyday life and what did he see in this film? The lies the corruption that they are involved day in and day out. This film is dark, it is real. You could easily feel the life in these characters as they marched across the screen as Antione Fuqua splattered their emotional lives all over a canvas. A cop film about real emotions, doesnt get any better.

Richard Gere took this project because his character gets blown a lot and has demons.

I was kept fairly entertained without being moved. Never really grew attached to any of the characters or their circumstances. Wasn't a bad way to spend two hours and $10, but nothing much more than that.

An average cop-movie, but you can see the twists coming a mile away. Also, you can take out any of the three stories without affecting the movie, don't know if that's a good thing. And is Swipes not supposed to be in prison? Kudos for the tie-wrap kill by Gere, highly original. They should have made Gere the disconnected father of Hawke, having an affair with the estranged wife of Cheadle or something to create some emotional tensions between the characters.