Brooklyn’s Finest (2009)

Brooklyn’s Finest is filled with cop clichés: the veteran officer only days from retirement, the undercover cop getting pulled into the crimes he’s supposed to investigate, and the mostly good guy who is sadly forced to go bad by the circumstances of life. Despite the weak story, the cast, including no less than Don Cheadle, Ethan Hawke, Richard Gere, Lili Taylor, Michael Kenneth Williams, and Wesley Snipes, does its best with the material at hand. The various stories all come together in a terribly contrived climax that attempts to make the whole thing cohesive.