Monday 17 March 2014

Brooklyn's Finest
Dir: Antoine Fuqua
2009
**
Brooklyn's Finest is yet another Cop movie that takes a road well traveled. It's cliche after cliche, after a while you wonder if that is the point? Is this a clever and subtle sarcastic critique on the modern Cop film? Probably not, but why didn't anyone sit director Antoine Fuqua and writer Michael C. Martin down before filming and ask; Do you think the 'soon to be retired cop' story-line has been overdone? Do you think you will achieve the sympathy the story asks of the audience in reference to the low pay cops receive when you portray said cops as corrupt murderers? Do you think it's justifiable or realistic that Cops will turn to criminal activities, including murder, if they don't receive more pay? Do you think a mans colour always comes before making the right decisions? As a couple of Black gentlemen, do you think you've represented your Black characters in the fairest and realistic of ways? Are you happy with the lack of diversity your Black characters have? Now, I'm not saying corruption doesn't happen but the mixed message of cops are good, cops are bad, isn't thought out very well. If the intention was to humanise them then that was achieved even less so. I liked the scene where all three unrelated character cross paths momentarily and i thought Wesley Snipes was pretty good but apart from that, this film would be forgetful were it not so frustratingly irresponsible.


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