Directed By: Allen Hughes (The Book of Eli)
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Russell Crowe, Catherine Zeta-Jones
Rating: R for pervasive language, some sexual content and violence
Run Time: 1 hour, 49 minutes
Synopsis: Seven years after being forced to retire allegedly shooting an unarmed suspect, former NYPD detective Billy Taggert (Wahlberg) is hired by NYC mayor Nick Hostetler (Crowe) to investigate his wife (Zeta-Jones) and find out who she's cheating on him with. But when things go south, Taggert finds himself caught up in city politics and something more than just a cheating spouse.
REVIEW
Andrew:
Hello readers! So just the other night we joined the throngs of people hitting
up the movie theatre on a Saturday night to catch a showing of the new Mark
Wahlberg thriller Broken City. I can’t really say this is one we’ve been looking
forward to seeing…
Sarah: No,
I wouldn’t say that at all actually.
A: But it’s
more that we felt like it was our duty to see a new release this weekend.
S: And
honestly it’s filled with actors who have historically done very well with the
movies they’ve chosen.
A: For
sure. It has Academy Award winners in Russell Crowe and Catherine Zeta-Jones to
go along with Marky Mark…
S: Who has
his moments…
A: Yeah,
we can’t forget that he was nominated for an Oscar for The Departed, too. And
then it has a pretty solid supporting cast with Jeffrey Wright (The
Hunger Games: Catching Fire), Barry Pepper (True Grit) and Kyle
Chandler (Zero Dark Thirty). So really a pretty good cast if you really
look at it. It’s directed by Allen Hughes, who is one half of The Hughes
Brothers who directed a person fav of mine in From Hell, as well as Dead
Presidents and The Book of Eli. So it’s only one of
the brothers this time, but still, not a bad pedigree behind it.
