The intertwining
stories of three policemen in a rough New York district.
Antoine
Fuqua was once a name to watch. “Training Day” was wonderful and “King Arthur”
was at least fun but after that he’s been free fall for him. I imagine that his
reasoning was to go back to his root and so try to replicate his early success
but this policemen over the edge story is no “Training Day”, doesn’t even came
close.
Partly to
blame are the actors. The biggest name
here, Richard Gere, is on autopilot, the normally very good Don Cheadle doesn’t
escape the prison of cliché Only Ethan Hawke manages something, but clearly he
received the best material. I wonder if maybe all the awesomeness of “Training
Day” was due to Denzel Washington, clearly you need a special kind of talent to
be able to elevate beyond your part.
Anyway the
movie is a rehearsal of stuff that we already saw. Those policemen do a crappy
job, they don’t get enough money, etc. Pick a random episode of “The wire” and
you’ll see something much, much better. It’s mildly interesting to see how the various
plot threads intersect but in the end the story completely fails to hold our
attention. I admire that they didn’t put any overarching bad guy or stuff like
that but you need much stronger material to pull it off, as it is it’s just a depressing
movie about some unlucky people.
Not even
worth renting.
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