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Detective Salvatore “Sal” Procidia (Hawke) is a poor cop with a lot to lose. As the film progresses, Proicidia’s spouse falls increasingly ill due to a mold problem in their run-down home. In order to save his wife and their twins, Procidia must make a down payment for a new house in just a few days, but he doesn’t have nearly enough money. To meet his deadline, he turns to robbing drug dealers during busts, even going so far as to break into a dealer?...
...stories of Detective Clarence “Tango” Butler (Cheadle) and Casanova “Caz” Phillips (Snipes) are interwoven in the film. Butler is an undercover narcotics cop in the projects, who has risen to the top of the business over the past few years. However, when Phillips, Butler’s old prison buddy and formerly powerful drug dealer, gets released from incarceration, problems arise. Cheadle is as charismatic as ever, endowing his character with the most emotion and authentic passion in the entire film. Snipes, while not as strong as Cheadle, also successfully...
...most puzzling aspects of the film is the fact that Fuqua never makes effective use of the film’s actual New York location, excluding several overhead shots of the projects. In fact, the only neighborhood in Brooklyn mentioned in the entire film is Bedford-Stuyvesant, and that is only in passing. On top of using essentially stock characters in the script, Fuqua does nothing to give the film any legitimate New York feel...
From the film’s unoriginal storyline to the overly violent and unnecessary massacre that punctuates its conclusion (the ending of the film was reshot following a poor reception at a screening at Sundance this year), “Brooklyn’s Finest” affords little recommendation other than its stellar cast...
According to Danish director Henrik Genz, “We can’t get what we want. And we have to be happy with what we can get.” In his new film, “Terribly Happy,” Genz manifests these sentiments in a story that—unsurprisingly, given its title—is fairly dark. Earning comparisons to films by American directors David Lynch and the Coen Brothers, Genz’s “Terribly Happy” exemplifies the Americanization of European films, creating a balance between the strong character...