Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Amateur movie with Big budget

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

This film tells the story of three Brooklyn policemen who have very different career paths. One is undercover, another is rogue and the third is about to retire in a few days. Their paths cross unexpectedly and tragically in a separate incidents that converge into one."Brooklyn's Finest" somehow does not keep me interested in it. The characters are mostly unlikable and unsympathetic, and I cannot connect with any of them. Their world and my world are vastly different, and I cannot relate to the characters at all. As a result, I could not get into the story at all. I find the story convoluted and lacking in an emotional climax despite what happens at the end. Perhaps the film is a good film, but it is not for me.

Richard Gere, Don Cheadle, and Ethan Hawke, great actors portraying Brooklyn cops, each with their own story, struggles and present difficulties both on and off the job.I like the very dimmed lighting and the feeling that brings to the movie and screen, the stories are very slowly moving along, this film is not in a hurry getting the story out, that's both good an bad.I have mixed feelings about this one, I like the actors, the scenery, the lighting and the rough streets of Brooklyn. But the slow passes isn't something i am all that happy about, it's good in the beginning to get under the skin of the characters, but halfway through it should have stepped up a couple of notches and that should have lasted to the end.Well it's definitely worth a watch, but it didn't keep me on the edge of my seat as others have written, it did give me a story, but it also left me wanting more.

Brooklyn's Finest is an urban morality tale where director Antoine Fuqua visits themes he dealt in Training Day and here includes Ethan Hawke now playing a veteran cop with money troubles, a large family, crummy house and tempted to steal drugs money to makes ends meet.Richard Gere is a cop on the verge of retirement playing it safe much to the annoyance of a new partner he has to babysit and it looks even his colleagues have little respect for him. Gere's only comfort is a close relationship with a prostitute.Don Cheadle is a cop in deep cover, maybe undercover for too long, he wants out, a promotion but he trusts his superiors less than he does the gangsters he is mingling with.Like the film Crash, the lives of these three cops and their storyline collide and it may not lead to a happy ending.The story is not original and difficult to do with a fresh twist so relies on its performances. All three leads with a supporting cast that includes Wesley Snipes and Ellen Barkin do well, even the minor roles are effective.I guess Gere is probably too old to play even a cop on the verge of retirement but he seems to be the heart of the film, someone who burnt out years ago but wants to find long term happiness when he retires and makes one last attempt in being a cop and take a risk.

I can't say that I found anything particularly noteworthy about "Brooklyn's Finest." The title gives the clearest signal as to what it's about: NYPD officers in Brooklyn - one (Richard Gere) just a few days from retirement and largely uninterested in the job and so playing out the string, one (Ethan Hawke) struggling with finances as he awaits the arrival of twins, and one (Don Cheadle) hoping to get out of undercover work and be promoted to detective. They aren't connected to each other, but they get unknowingly caught up in the same drug investigation, and the movie morphs into yet another of those "unrelated stories that eventually intersect" plots. No, I'm not really a big fan of that format.The leads are strong enough. Gere, Cheadle, and Hawke all do well enough, and they all pull off the challenge of being largely unsympathetic characters who at the same time have sympathetic elements to them. They all have their own personal demons and challenges. Add Wesley Snipes into the mix and you have a solid cast. It is, however, quite heavy on clichés. The police are untrustworthy and unreliable to say the least and pretty much every black character is either a drug dealer, a pimp or a prostitute (or at least is sympathetic to them.) Eventually (and interspersed throughout) this descends into little more than a blood bath. Most importantly, it just really isn't that interesting. Every movie needs a redeeming character for the viewer to identify with and root for. This movie had no redeeming characters of note.Overall, this is really just a reasonably well-acted but largely unpleasant movie. (4/10)