Synopsis
Enforcing the law within the notoriously rough Brownsville section of the city and especially within the Van Dyke housing projects is the NYPD's sixty-fifth precinct. Three police officers struggle with the sometimes fine line between right and wrong.
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Cast
- Richard GereOff. Eddie Dugan
- Don CheadleDet. Clarence 'Tango' Butler
- Ethan HawkeDet. Sal Procida
- Wesley SnipesCasanova 'Caz' Phillips
- Vincent D'OnofrioBobby 'Carlo' Powers
- Ellen BarkinAgent Smith
- Michael Kenneth WilliamsRed
- Shannon KaneChantel
- Brían F. O'ByrneDet. Ronny Rosario
- Will PattonLt. Bill Hobarts
Recommendations
- 63
ReelViews
Fuqua's portrait of Brooklyn is brutal and gritty; if only his characters were as vivid. - 63
Observer
Mr. Gere is miscast as Eddie, too naturally regal in bearing to be the screw-up he’s supposed to be, and for a broken man, he still moves with the same confidence as his younger self did in "An Officer and a Gentleman." - 50
Variety
It’s more like "Hamlet" -- the ending, at least, with enough blood and corpses to fill a housing project. The only thing missing is a point, which Fuqua circles for two hours without landing. - 50
Entertainment Weekly
Ellen Barkin provides unexpected diversion in a madwoman cameo as the PD's brassiest brass. But otherwise the clichés keep coming. - 50
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
In the end, audiences will be neither shaken nor stirred. Just bored and confused. - 40
The Hollywood Reporter
Here, due in large measure to a highly derivative screenplay, the director allows several reckless, unprofessional cops drive the movie into utter nonsense. - 40
Village Voice
Filled with every cop-movie convention since the invention of gunpowder and curse words, Brooklyn's Finest is three movies in one, all of which you've seen before. - 40
Time Out
Antoine Fuqua’s second-rate retread of his own "Training Day" is a bloated, multithread drama concerning three burnt-out cops at the end of their seemingly unconnected ropes.
