Brooklyn's Finest

*** - To get this out of the way early… yes, this movie was fairly entertaining. However, I express my aging curmudgeonly guy right in saying that this is one in what seems to be a never-ending string of movies that deals with corrupt cops and hip-hop ‘gangstas’ in urban America, the culture surrounding which irritates me to no end. The main message this movie brought home to me is that I am so sick of ebonics that I am beginning to think that all urban slums where this faux dialect is prominent should be torched immediately, whether this makes the jobs of scumbag cracker pigs easier or not. I’m guessing that this is not what the filmmakers intended for me to take from this movie. And maybe it is unfair for me to judge this movie based on that. In fact, I have decided that, yes, it is unfair, so I have changed my original two-star rating to three stars (as reflected above). Still, this ‘black hip-hop morons are cool’ shit has to go. On a side note, I find it hilariously ironic that Wesley Snipes plays a recently released prisoner in this film while in real life he is getting ready to go into prison. But I kid Willie Mays Hays Blade. Yeah, he’s alright.