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Format: DVD
Release Date: 04-30-2013
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Product Name: Broken City [DVD] [2013]
UPC: 024543832577
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Political corruption thriller.
Starts with a great cast, Russell Crowe (Gladiator, A Beautiful Mind), Mark Wahlberg (The Fighter), Catherine Zeta-Jones (Chicago, Zorro), Jeffrey Wright (Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace), Kyle Chandler (Super 8, Friday Night Lights) and a great director Allen Hughes, of the Hughes Brothers, I think this is his first solo film. The story starts with Crowe the mayor hiring ex-cop down and out private I Wahlberg to see if his wife Zeta-Jones is having an affair, of course she is, and there's murder and a reelection and some more twists and turns.
The storyline shows how a one time cop gets caught up in one bad scene and he is thrown off the police force. Unknowing to him all of this was captured on film that was later used to bartered with him by the Mayor of the City of NYC to act in accordance with his plot to investigate his spouse for an ex-martiable affair while the mayor eliminates his opposition to his re-election plans. The mayor is corrupt and he tries to corrupt everyone around him until the truth catches up with him.
