Brooklyn's Finest is expertly directed by the excellent Antoine Fequa (Training Day, Shooter, The Equalizer 1&2, Olympus Has Fallen) this guy is one of the greats of suspenseful action thriller Cinema. Here Fequa gives us a tough cop thriller about three cops on different paths but are all NYPD officers & will eventually cross paths.
The cast is excellent. We have the always excellent Ethan Hawke (Training Day, Assault on Precinct 13, Sinister, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead) & Hawke gives an excellent performance as Sal, a struggling family man who has many kids & a pregnant wife with twins on the way. Sal is a crooked cop, he kills drug dealers & steals their money but he gets way to caught up in it when he has a deadline to buy his families dream house. Truly an incredible performance as Sal does bad things for good reasons.
We also have the excellent Don Cheadle (Hotel Rwanda, Many Marvel films) as a deep undercover cop named Clarence "Tango" Butler, a guy who is in so deep that he's losing himself in his gangster role. Clarence wants out now but is being forced to bring down drugs lord Caz, played by the great Wesley Snipes!!! But Clarence is good friends with the guy & doesn't trust the police force he's working for. Cheadle is excellent of course.
Last is the veteran actor great Richard Gere as a loner, fed up with life & often cowardly & almost retired cop Eddie Dugan. Gere plays Eddie as a man that's seen it all & figures was it even worth it? He's a week away from retirement & is suicidal.
Gere is excellent & gives the film a strong backbone by having him in the cast. The four actors are excellent.
All paths will cross at some point but until then we follow each character as they go about their dangerous lives in a crime ridden New York City. There's a gritty realness to "Brooklyn's Finest" as we see a more realistic version of the police force with it's harshness on display. Also there's racial tension that is always there in America & of course crooked cops & gang bangers.
Truly a brilliant piece of filmmaking. A true New York City cop thriller that packs a mighty unexpected punch.
The cast is excellent. We have the always excellent Ethan Hawke (Training Day, Assault on Precinct 13, Sinister, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead) & Hawke gives an excellent performance as Sal, a struggling family man who has many kids & a pregnant wife with twins on the way. Sal is a crooked cop, he kills drug dealers & steals their money but he gets way to caught up in it when he has a deadline to buy his families dream house. Truly an incredible performance as Sal does bad things for good reasons.
We also have the excellent Don Cheadle (Hotel Rwanda, Many Marvel films) as a deep undercover cop named Clarence "Tango" Butler, a guy who is in so deep that he's losing himself in his gangster role. Clarence wants out now but is being forced to bring down drugs lord Caz, played by the great Wesley Snipes!!! But Clarence is good friends with the guy & doesn't trust the police force he's working for. Cheadle is excellent of course.
Last is the veteran actor great Richard Gere as a loner, fed up with life & often cowardly & almost retired cop Eddie Dugan. Gere plays Eddie as a man that's seen it all & figures was it even worth it? He's a week away from retirement & is suicidal.
Gere is excellent & gives the film a strong backbone by having him in the cast. The four actors are excellent.
All paths will cross at some point but until then we follow each character as they go about their dangerous lives in a crime ridden New York City. There's a gritty realness to "Brooklyn's Finest" as we see a more realistic version of the police force with it's harshness on display. Also there's racial tension that is always there in America & of course crooked cops & gang bangers.
Truly a brilliant piece of filmmaking. A true New York City cop thriller that packs a mighty unexpected punch.