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...rest of the weekend's top 10 was teeming with cops, marshals and soldiers. Brooklyn's Finest, with Don Cheadle, Wesley Snipes, Ethan Hawke and Richard Gere, snagged a better-than-expected $13.5 million for second place, two notches above another Kings County policier, Cop Out. Martin Scorsese's Shelter Island took third place and is nearing the $100 million mark. In other milestones, Sandra Bullock's sports inspirational The Blind Side broke $250 million; Valentine's Day topped $100 million; and Dear John and Percy Jackson hit $75 million. Jeff Bridges' Crazy Heart, the one "indie" drama to reap...
...show; Avatar should have piled up enough little-people statuettes in the intervening three hours to keep the masses satisfied. The big threat to big ratings, as of mid-afternoon Sunday, is that the show may not be seen by millions of viewers in Brooklyn, the Bronx and Westchester county and on Long Island. Disney, in a dispute with the cable supplier Cablevision, last night shut down Cablevision's access to WABC, the country's most-watched local TV station, on which the Oscars are to be shown. Although the show can be seen online, and on Hulu...
...Alice in Wonderland, $116.3 million, first weekend 2. Brooklyn's Finest, $13.5 million, first weekend 3. Shutter Island, $13.3 million; $95.8 million, third week 4. Cop Out, $9.1 million; $32.4 million, second week 5. Avatar, $7.7 million; $720.2 million, twelfth week 6. The Crazies, $7 million; $27.4 million, second week 7. Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief, $5.1 million; $78 million, fourth week 8. Valentine's Day, $4.3 million; $106.4 million, fourth week 9. Crazy Heart, $3.4 million; $29.6 million, twelfth week 10. Dear John, $2.9 million; $76.7 million, fifth week...
...instead Brooklyn's Finest is a movie, one with too much on its plate. We've got Tango (Don Cheadle), working undercover in the 'hood for years and itching to get out. Then there's ambitionless beat cop Eddie (Richard Gere), who wants to take it very easy because he's got seven days to retirement (not so fast, Eddie). Finally, there is narcotics officer Sal (Ethan Hawke), who has a wife (Lili Taylor) pregnant with twins and a miniature house already bursting at the seams with too many children to count. He's desperate for more money and while...
Gere is also playing against type, and he's amusing as a sad sack, especially in scenes with Chantel, the hooker Eddie is sweet on. Chantel is played by Shannon Kane, an actress of incomparable hip flexibility. (May Brooklyn's Finest do for her what Training Day did for Eva Mendes. Or at least get her some hula work.) Eddie is cynical, mean to recruits and won't lift a finger for anyone. This is one of those situations in which familiarity with an actor directs the narrative more than the screenwriter does. We know Eddie is going...