After watching an amped-up police thriller as a kid, perhaps you’d slowly walk down the hallway, form a two-handed gun out of your thumbs and forefingers and imitate a cop’s pivot-and-pop shooting stance. With respect to credited law-enforcement consultants, “Brooklyn’s Finest” feels about as authentically dangerous as that scenario. Its street-life story about troubled cops is embarrassingly simplified for audiences lured in by Richard Gere’s presence, and brief appearances of “The Wire” luminaries like Michael Kenneth Williams (Omar), Hassan Johnson (Wee-Bey) and Isiah Whitlock (Sen. Clay Davis) only enforces that “Finest” couldn’t hold that series’ jock.
Brooklyn's Finest
Brooklyn's Finest
Brooklyn's Finest
After watching an amped-up police thriller as a kid, perhaps you’d slowly walk down the hallway, form a two-handed gun out of your thumbs and forefingers and imitate a cop’s pivot-and-pop shooting stance. With respect to credited law-enforcement consultants, “Brooklyn’s Finest” feels about as authentically dangerous as that scenario. Its street-life story about troubled cops is embarrassingly simplified for audiences lured in by Richard Gere’s presence, and brief appearances of “The Wire” luminaries like Michael Kenneth Williams (Omar), Hassan Johnson (Wee-Bey) and Isiah Whitlock (Sen. Clay Davis) only enforces that “Finest” couldn’t hold that series’ jock.