<p>   u00a0</p>  <h2 class="footer_style">   Broken City</h2>  <h2 class="footer_style">   A; Thriller</h2>  <h2 class="footer_style">   Dir: Allen Hughes</h2>  <h2 class="footer_style">   Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Russell Crowe</h2>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   <img alt="" src="http://images.mid-day.com/2013/jan/2-stars_2.gif" style="width: 59px; height: 11px;" /></div>  <p>   u00a0</p>  <p>   Director Allen Hughes, who made the excellent The Book of Eli two years ago, fails in trying to dole up a modern story involving capitalism, vanity, corruption and murder in NYC and ends up with a hot mess that comes off as a stoner version of the TV series The Wire.</p>  <p>   <img alt="Broken City" src="http://images.mid-day.com/2013/jan/Broken-City.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 320px;" /></p>  <p>   Wahlberg stars as Billy Taggart, a cop who is saved from imprisonment by the Mayor (Crowe). Years later as a private detective Billy is asked by the Mayor to take pictures of his adulterous wife (Catherine Zeta Jones). Naturally, nothing is as it seems and the murder of the wife&rsquo;s lover leads Billy to a much bigger conspiracy spearheaded by the Mayor.</p>  <p>   Stitched together is an absolutely inconsequential plot point of Billy&rsquo;s girlfriend (Natalie Martinez) that neither adds anything to the story nor is the least bit interesting to look at, apart from Martinez&rsquo;s eye-popping body.</p>  <p>   Hughes and writer Brian Tucker heavily borrow elements from A Perfect Murder and Sidney Lumet&rsquo;s films, particularly Serpico as Wahlberg&rsquo;s NYC cop fumbles from the script&rsquo;s one problem to another. He pitches in his standard issue no-nonsense performance while Crowe does a villainous version of the same overweight, silver-haired bespectacled avatar he had in Inside Man and Body of Lies. It all ends with a predictable twist that was all but given away in the trailers.u00a0</p>  

Despite a strong cast of Mark Wahlberg as a beat up cop and Russell Crowe as a scheming politician, Broken City is derivative, meandering and obsolete from start to end.

Movie Review: Broken City

Broken City

A; Thriller

Dir: Allen Hughes

Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Russell Crowe

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