Post by annabelleleigh on Jan 17, 2009 20:28:19 GMT -5
First "Cadillac Records" -- now VDO pops up in another unbilled, very brief cameo in a Sundance Film Festival entry starring his buddy Ethan Hawke. Hardly seems worth posting but here's the review.
Boldface mine.
AL
P.S. "Hideous Men," starring Julianne Nicholson, is also on the Sundance schedule while Jeff Goldblum's "Adam Resurrected" debuted last night in Berlin. Source: Variety.
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Brooklyn's Finest
Review by John Anderson
Variety
January 17, 2009
Excerpt:
"A Thunder Road Films and Millennium Films presentation, in association with Langley Films. (International sales: CAA/William Morris Agency, Los Angeles.) Produced by Basil Iwanyk, John Langley, Elie Con, John Thompson. Executive producers, Mary Viola, Jesse Kennedy, Robert Greenhut, Antoine Fuqua, Avi Lerner, Danny Dimbort, Trevor Short, Boaz Davidson. Co-producer, Kat Samick. Directed by Antoine Fuqua. Screenplay, Michael C. Martin, Brad Caleb Kane.
Eddie - Richard Gere
Tango - Don Cheadle
Sal - Ethan Hawke
Caz - Wesley Snipes
Bill - Will Patton
Smith - Ellen Barkin
Ronny - Brian F. O'Byrne
Gleefully if pointlessly violent, the facetiously titled "Brooklyn's Finest" ensnares a first-rate cast in a dramatic dragnet for a fugitive moral lesson about street-weary policemen -- whose fates may leave auds not just befuddled, but actively ticked off. The performances are uniformly good, but "Training Day" helmer Antoine Fuqua seems to lack the maturity as a filmmaker to match his casting or his budget. Stars may attract crowds, but the film's bleak vision is too relentless to elicit much love. Add to all this an ending that drew gasps and laughs at the drama's Park City premiere, and that will likely be excised before the pic hits theaters.
Not that "Brooklyn's Finest" is drab or visually lazy; it is, however, a narrative muddle. Three main characters are introduced: First, Eddie (Richard Gere) wakes up in the morning and puts a gun barrel in his mouth, rehearsing for suicide. Second, Sal (Ethan Hawke) -- after chatting amiably in a car with what we assume is a fellow gangster (Vincent D'Onofrio) -- shoots the guy in the face and robs him of a bag of cash. And third, a very slick, very dangerous Tango (Don Cheadle) is cruising Brownsville, clearly at ease with thug life, orchestrating the running of big bags of coke. But all three are actually cops, serving at various levels of the NYPD hierarchy. And all three are poster boys for the corrupting influence of easy money, no respect and a vision of the future that's begging them to sell out."
Read the full article at:
www.variety.com/story.asp?l=story&r=VE1117939360&c=-1
Boldface mine.
AL
P.S. "Hideous Men," starring Julianne Nicholson, is also on the Sundance schedule while Jeff Goldblum's "Adam Resurrected" debuted last night in Berlin. Source: Variety.
-----------------------------
Brooklyn's Finest
Review by John Anderson
Variety
January 17, 2009
Excerpt:
"A Thunder Road Films and Millennium Films presentation, in association with Langley Films. (International sales: CAA/William Morris Agency, Los Angeles.) Produced by Basil Iwanyk, John Langley, Elie Con, John Thompson. Executive producers, Mary Viola, Jesse Kennedy, Robert Greenhut, Antoine Fuqua, Avi Lerner, Danny Dimbort, Trevor Short, Boaz Davidson. Co-producer, Kat Samick. Directed by Antoine Fuqua. Screenplay, Michael C. Martin, Brad Caleb Kane.
Eddie - Richard Gere
Tango - Don Cheadle
Sal - Ethan Hawke
Caz - Wesley Snipes
Bill - Will Patton
Smith - Ellen Barkin
Ronny - Brian F. O'Byrne
Gleefully if pointlessly violent, the facetiously titled "Brooklyn's Finest" ensnares a first-rate cast in a dramatic dragnet for a fugitive moral lesson about street-weary policemen -- whose fates may leave auds not just befuddled, but actively ticked off. The performances are uniformly good, but "Training Day" helmer Antoine Fuqua seems to lack the maturity as a filmmaker to match his casting or his budget. Stars may attract crowds, but the film's bleak vision is too relentless to elicit much love. Add to all this an ending that drew gasps and laughs at the drama's Park City premiere, and that will likely be excised before the pic hits theaters.
Not that "Brooklyn's Finest" is drab or visually lazy; it is, however, a narrative muddle. Three main characters are introduced: First, Eddie (Richard Gere) wakes up in the morning and puts a gun barrel in his mouth, rehearsing for suicide. Second, Sal (Ethan Hawke) -- after chatting amiably in a car with what we assume is a fellow gangster (Vincent D'Onofrio) -- shoots the guy in the face and robs him of a bag of cash. And third, a very slick, very dangerous Tango (Don Cheadle) is cruising Brownsville, clearly at ease with thug life, orchestrating the running of big bags of coke. But all three are actually cops, serving at various levels of the NYPD hierarchy. And all three are poster boys for the corrupting influence of easy money, no respect and a vision of the future that's begging them to sell out."
Read the full article at:
www.variety.com/story.asp?l=story&r=VE1117939360&c=-1
