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Posted on Fri, Mar 5, 2010 : 11:40 a.m.

A mediocre story about "Brooklyn's Finest"

By AnnArbor.com Freelance Journalist

Brooklyn's Finest Opens today at Quality 16, Showcase, Brighton Review by Corey Hall of the Metro Times Grade: C+

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Jesse Williams and Richard Gere in "Brooklyn's Finest"

Rumor has it that it’s hard out there on the streets, and you’d need a firehose to blast all the dirt off the blacktop of this intense, downbeat and-too-familiar thriller. It’s the latest from director Antoine Fuqua, who specializes in building corrupt urban hellscapes filled with compromised crooks and cops with souls as gray as Scotland winters. This time he’s split the focus across a whole precinct full of three-time losers, burned-out vets and jittery rookies who occasionally bump into each other on their respective paths to damnation.

Read the full review here