Brooklyn's Finest

I was completely blown away by this. It was everything I wanted and so much more. Just about everything was fantastic about this movie. Acting, music, realism, etc...

Director Antoine Fuqua has explored this territory before with Training Day. That was a tale of corruption and greed set in Los Angeles. Now he trades L.A. for New York and the result is even better. Fuqua learns from his mistakes in Training Day and crafts another one of the top 3 cop movies I've seen. Working off an awesome script written by 1st time writer Michael C. Martin (a former NY transit worker), everything came together perfectly. Starting with the cast which includes big names Richard Gere, Ethan Hawke, Don Cheadle, & Wesley Snipes. Snipes is decent, but doesn't have enough screen time to really flesh out his character. Gere, Hawke, & Cheadle on the other hand all give fantastic performances. Each of them fleshes out their characters completely and makes us as the audience really believe that they are these people and we feel for them. All of the supporting actors are very good as well, including the city of Brooklyn which is another supporting actor in itself. The areas which this movie were shot in really provided a lot of realism and grit that I believe it really needed to work as well as it did. Kudos to everyone involved.

Now I believe that if this is not better than Training Day or The Departed, then it's at least right up there with them in the upper echelon of cop movies.

It's my favorite movie of 2010 so far and it's gonna be really tough finding something that can beat it.