Brooklyn's Finest |  | Director: Antoine Fuqua
Actors: Richard Gere, Don Cheadle, Ethan Hawke, Wesley Snipes
Studio: Overture Films/Anchor Bay Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Seller: New Holland Warehouse
Rating:  88 reviews
Sales Rank: 355
Format: Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English (Unknown)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Running Time: 132 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.7
MPN: 013132140193
UPC: 013132140193
EAN: 0013132140193
ASIN: B0034G4OSG
Theatrical Release Date: March 5, 2010
Release Date: July 6, 2010
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Follows three police officers in Brooklyn, N.Y., all at different points in their careers, as their paths intersect through their jobs.
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Fans of the grit of HBO's The Wire, as well as of the mean-streets story intersection plot of Crash, will find a lot to like in the intense crime drama Brooklyn's Finest. Directed by Antoine Fuqua (Training Day) with a sure hand, Brooklyn's Finest follows three NYPD cops who come from very different places (geographically and personally) as their lives, and the compromises they have made daily to coexist with the mean streets of Brooklyn, dovetail to a climax that will have viewers on the edge of their seats. Fuqua has assembled a stellar cast here, including Richard Gere, a veteran cop just a week from retirement; the always amazing Don Cheadle, an undercover officer whose loyalties to the force may be compromised by his growing loyalties to the groups he's infiltrating; and the film's true revelation, Ethan Hawke, a young corrupt cop whose morals make the stomach turn, though Hawke's performance is nuanced and riveting. Supporting cast members include Wesley Snipes as a badass gangster whom even the police have second thoughts about messing with. Other great performances are turned in by Vincent D'Onofrio, whose wooden delivery works here to make his character all the more menacing; Lili Taylor; and a ravishing, world-weary Ellen Barkin. The action is propelled along by the great performances, the excellent cinematography, Fuqua's deft direction, and the moody score by Brazilian composer Marcelo Zarvos. If the plot is a little far-fetched, even for a crime drama, the stellar performances more than make up for it, making Brooklyn's Finest one of Fuqua's, and certainly Hawke's, finest. --A.T. Hurley
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 Brooklyn's finest is fantastic!!! September 4, 2010
Giselle Velez
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Great movie. Delivered in a timely manner. Great packaging. No damage to disk-plays clear. Would recommend this seller.
 BROOKLYN'S FINEST August 30, 2010
CAROLE DAMIANO (HOMOSASSA, FLORIDA, US)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
Unfortunately we tried to watch the digital copy and it wouldn't work. Not sure what's wrong, but it just wouldn't work. Have not tried the blue ray as of this date. We're usuingng our motor home and don't have a blue ray in it.
 Dark & Depressing August 30, 2010
Kitten Kisser
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I would have liked this movie better if at least in the end something positive happened to lighten the dark mood of the entire movie. There was a very tiny bright spot at the end but it just wasn't enough to banish the dreary lives of the main characters.
The movie is directed well. The acting is good. The story is good...if it wasn't so sad.
I don't think there is a single happy person! Everyone is either being shot, doing the shooting, being depressed, being abused or being the abuser. The drugie or the drug dealer. Everyone just hates their life. I held out on the hope that everyone's suffering would pay off in the end & there would be some joy. It's just one of those NOT "feel good of the year" movies.
I gave it 3 stars because it could have been much better...the potential was there.
 GRITTY BUT COMPELLING August 28, 2010
MISTER SJEM (CALIF BAY AREA United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A gritty setup in Brooklyn that reminded me of THE WIRE. Focus is on three main characters who are cops with conflicting passions, or, in the case of one, passion that has been stifled by numbness. There's quite a cast in this piece including some name actor/actresses in supporting roles (though one could argue Ellen Barkin and Will Patton aren't top entertainers anymore but that's up for debate). My dater didn't care for the gritty violence or the raw underbelly setting of Brooklyn. I really enjoyed it but went in expecting tragic themes. MY GRADE: B plus to A minus (almost a five star but not quite); WHEN WATCHED: 09/27/2010.
Good Cop, Bad Cop August 27, 2010
Sky (New York)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
There are so many movies that try to make the cops look like the bad guys. And Brooklyn's Finest is indeed another one that you can throw onto the pile. But I was really surprised by how much I enjoyed Brooklyn's Finest.
The movie is very well done with a great cast. It was good to see Wesley Snipes back to form; he's been a bit "off" since the last Blade movie (hopefully he'll be just as good in the upcoming Gallowwalker). But Wesley is really only a costar in Brooklyn's Finest; the real standouts are Ethan Hawke, Don Cheadle and Richard Gere. And they are all directed masterfully along their ways through the movie by Antoine Fuqua whose last film Shooter also pleasantly surprised me.
In Brooklyn's Finest you follow three cops through some very trying times in a very bad neighborhood. Hawke is a down on his luck narc detective; Cheadle does an outstanding deep cover detective struggling to get his true life back; and Gere is a depressed and unmotivated beat cop within days of retirement.
Sounds like a bummer, right? Beverly Hills Cop it ain't. No laughs and no happy ending here. But Director Fuqua intertwines enough action into the story to keep the viewer interested during the ups and downs, and then ultimately connects all of the dots brilliantly by the credit-roll.
Brooklyn's Finest runs a bit long at just over 2 hours, but I was thoroughly entertained from start to finish. It may not be a collector's item or a classic, but it's certainly worthy of the top of your viewing queue.
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