Metacritic Movie Ratings
Brooklyn's Finest Reviews

A sample of reviews from critics across the country.

• 75

  out of 100

  Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert

  The best things about Brooklyn's Finest are the one-on-one scenes. These are fine actors.

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• 50

  out of 100

  Los Angeles TimesBetsy Sharkey

  An old-style potboiler about desperate cops in dire straits that overcooks both its story and its stars.

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• 50

  out of 100

  Variety

  It's more like "Hamlet" -- the ending, at least, with enough blood and corpses to fill a housing project. The only thing missing is a point, which Fuqua circles for two hours without landing.

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• 50

  out of 100

  USA TodayClaudia Puig

  Melodramatic and laden with cop-thriller clichs, the story, set in one of New York's toughest precincts, is contrived and inauthentic -- and also grisly.

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• 50

  out of 100

  The New York TimesA.O. Scott

  Like Tango, Sal and Eddie, Mr. Fuqua and Mr. Martin dig themselves into a pulpy predicament, and then find themselves unable to do anything but shoot their way out. The movie is wounded, but it's also too tough to kill.

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• 50

  out of 100

  Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum

  Ellen Barkin provides unexpected diversion in a madwoman cameo as the PD's brassiest brass. But otherwise the clichs keep coming.

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• 40

  out of 100

  The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt

  Here, due in large measure to a highly derivative screenplay, the director allows several reckless, unprofessional cops drive the movie into utter nonsense.

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• 10

  out of 100

  Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern

  Whatever one may think of the overall style--I think it's ludicrous--Mr. Fuqua clearly wanted his film to be operatic, and so it is, in a tone-deaf way.

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