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| STAR RATINGS EXPLAINED |
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| FILM DETAILS | | Certificate 15 | | Cast
Mark Wahlberg
Russell Crowe
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Kyle Chandler
Barry Pepper | | Directors
Allen Hughes | | Screenwriters
Brian Tucker | | Running Time
109 minutes |
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Broken City
Taggart The Movie (no, not that one)
Plot
On the eve of a close election, the Mayor of New York (Crowe) hires cop-turned-private eye Billy Taggart (Wahlberg) to investigate his wife’s (Zeta-Jones) suspected infidelity. But is she screwing someone else, or plotting to screw her husband out of re-election?
Verdict
If this ‘power corrupts’ potboiler had been made in the 1990s — with, say, Andy Garcia, Gene Hackman and Kim Basinger — it would already have felt old-fashioned. Forget it, Jake, it’s no Chinatown.
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