Sinakilloptimist Review: Brooklyn’s Finest
“I need this, I need it like water”, “The universe is an unforgiving place”, ‘Go home to your family”, “The devil makes this easy for me”, are a few of the notable quotes from Brooklyn’s Finest.
Don’t call it a call back but Wesley Snipes is impressive. No dents are in his armor. Ethan Hawke is off the charts as a desperate cop trying to provide for his large family. Richard Gere reaches back to his Internal Affairs (1990) days when he also played a cop. He is a loner cop ready for retirement. When your main companion is a prostitute, you know you’re a troubled individual. Lastly, Don Cheadle plays Clarence “don’t call me Clarence” Butler to a tee. Think Laurence Fishburne in Deep Cover. (187 on an undercover cop Snoop Dogg classic). He is conflicted & the lines of right/wrong, good/bad have not been blurred but obliterated.
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Director Antoine Fuqua does a wonderful job capturing Brooklyn on fire. His opening scene allows you to settle in, then you’re off to the races. Not a sprint, but nicely paced. Spike, the Hughes Brothers or a handful of other directors could have pulled this off, but with Fuqua you witness the toughness & grit of Brooklyn. If you like violence, drugs, go-go girls, cursing (check, check, check, check), you’ll love this one. Must See… I won’t go there, but it was very good.
Man your killing these reviews.
I’m having a hard time keeping up. I’ll mos def have to check this one out.
I was on the fence after seeing Snipes in the preview, but after your review this just moved into the must see zone.
Hows everything on the Hill?
We stay on the phone tag game (pause)
PROPS!
March 8, 2010 at 11:22 AM
WEsley bring his real life encounters with the Taxman into play for this role. Not so you can see it but it is there.
Caz wants out, just as much as Tango. Only he is the alpha-dog so he can’t show it, because as soon as he does, he loses control.
In that context, this role is much different than his creation of the archetypical drug lord (Snipes as Nino Brown in the 1991 New Jack City).
For this role, he had to turn Nino Brown inside out. That’s why Tango was so conflicted.
my own review is here:
http://jmmnewaov2.wordpress.com/
jmm
March 8, 2010 at 6:20 PM
Crooklyn on steroids
March 9, 2010 at 6:59 PM