There's three main claims I've noticed against Brooklyn's Finest. It's cliched, it's like someone have seen the entire TV-show The Wire and then decided to do it all over again, just worse and shorter, and the final claim is there's too many plot holes.
Yes. This is definitely molded in the spirit of The Wire, and it's not as good. How could it be? You can't add the dialogues and layers for all sides in a movie, that The Wire did each season. Still. I claim more movies should be molded closer to The Wire's style. Let's face it. It's been a long time since The Wire exploded into the pop cultural world, and no-one have been close to recreate it since. There's even been way too few attempts.
This also covers the plot hole parts. A movie can't possibly go as deep into the bad guys as well as the cops like The Wire did. It's just not time in a movie. That's why the scum had to be less intelligent at times, that's why all stories can't be told in full detail and that's why we should enjoy the movie as it is rather than comparing it to anything else. It's just a glimpse into three career cops walking different paths, and a night they pass in the street. A night that changes everything, as much as everything have been changed before to culminate in this night.
Cliched? Well. There's a reason something become cliches, and there's not a lot of ways to tell cop-stories originally anymore. I rather someone does it in this style, with some cliches attached, rather than going out of their way to be creative and forget the story they should tell. Brooklyn's Finest knows what story it tries to tell, and it does so well. Richard Gere, Ethan Hawke and Don Cheadle does great work as the three leads, well supported by fine acting from people like Wesley Snipes, Will Patton, Ellen Barkin and Shannon Kane. An entertaining cop movie, hinting at greats that have been doing closely related genre classics.
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