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Broken City (2013)

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Average Rating: 4.8/10
Reviews Counted: 142
Fresh: 42 | Rotten: 100

Broken City's thinly sketched, formulaic script offers meager rewards for all but the least demanding noir aficionados.

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Average Rating: 5.1/10
Critic Reviews: 39
Fresh: 10 | Rotten: 29

Broken City's thinly sketched, formulaic script offers meager rewards for all but the least demanding noir aficionados.

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In a broken city rife with injustice, ex-cop Billy Taggart (Mark Wahlberg) seeks redemption and revenge after being double-crossed and then framed by its most powerful figure, the mayor (Russell Crowe). Billy's relentless pursuit of justice, matched only by his streetwise toughness, makes him an unstoppable force and the mayor's worst nightmare. (c) Fox

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Apr 30, 2013

$19.7M

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All Critics (151) | Top Critics (41) | Fresh (42) | Rotten (101) | DVD (1)

Somewhere in here there's a cogent, timely attack on the links between business and politics.

February 26, 2013 Full Review Source: Time Out
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If you're in the mood for some slick trash featuring great actors slumming it without phoning it in, "Broken City" is a crackling good time.

January 28, 2013 Full Review Source: Richard Roeper.com
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Most of the roles are so ambiguous you end up scratching your head in the final reel, and some of the loose ends are so irrelevant they seem to have ended up on the cutting-room floor.

January 23, 2013 Full Review Source: New York Observer
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What follows is not a review; it's an autopsy...one long (illustrated!) spoiler.

January 22, 2013 Full Review Source: The Atlantic
The Atlantic
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[An] overproduced, underobserved, yet agreeably twisty new political thriller ...

January 21, 2013 Full Review Source: New Yorker
New Yorker
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Did these people - or even these people's people - not bother to read the script first?

January 20, 2013 Full Review Source: Toronto Star
Toronto Star
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It takes more than typical tough-guy turns from Wahlberg and Crowe to save the lackluster affair.

April 30, 2013 Full Review Source: COEDMagazine.com
COEDMagazine.com

the screenplay, filled with hackneyed implausibilities and trite characterization, constantly lets everyone down

April 22, 2013 Full Review Source: Film Racket
Film Racket

It is predictable procedural fodder - you can see the "twists" coming a mile away - but done with enough conviction to paper over the plot holes and cliches.

March 17, 2013 Full Review Source: 3AW

It has ideas and, in places, verve, but it can't help but feel like a pretty standard thriller with some big names rather erroneously attached

March 17, 2013 Full Review Source: Fan The Fire
Fan The Fire

Alarm bells started ringing when every terse exchange proved chuckle worthy.

March 14, 2013 Full Review Source: Flicks.co.nz
Flicks.co.nz

A solidly old-fashioned crime thriller that ploughs the familiar furrow of cops, crooks and corruption in New York City.

March 14, 2013 Full Review Source: Movie Talk
Movie Talk

Welcome to the broken city... where honorable anti-heroes with dark pasts can get double-crossed and mixed up with good guys who're really bad guys... where doing the right thing will put you IN TOO DEEP. It's a drag to be here.

March 11, 2013 Full Review Source: Movies.com
Movies.com

Aside from feeling bemused and confused by the end, the web of deceit that's presented is not even vaguely believable.

March 10, 2013 Full Review Source: The Sun Herald
The Sun Herald

Acting drunk looks easy but its certainly not. So when Wahlberg hits the bottle, we are treated to what must be the most laughable screen lush in cinema history.

March 7, 2013 Full Review Source: UTV

In the end, the cards fall roughly where you'd expect them to in a clichéd thriller.

March 5, 2013 Full Review Source: Daily Star

Broken City may break new ground when it comes to pioneering cinematic scowls, but that's the only area where the cast is able to elevate the banal material.

March 4, 2013 Full Review Source: Quickflix
Quickflix

The results are as jaded and dull as Crowe's performance.

March 3, 2013 Full Review Source: Scotsman

It's moderately enjoyable, well acted and both complicated and simplistic.

March 3, 2013 Full Review Source: Observer [UK]
Observer [UK]

Mark Wahlberg builds a credible and complex charaterisation as the flawed character whose route to redemption is paved with treachery. He's the best thing going for Broken City

March 1, 2013 Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile
Urban Cinefile

Excelling in the smarmy stakes, Russell Crowe is back in form as a crooked New York Mayor...

March 1, 2013 Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile
Urban Cinefile

While this thriller plays with themes of political ethics and ambition, it merely lets them simmer in the background. Director Hughes is clearly much more interested in macho posturing and the convoluted scandal-based plot.

March 1, 2013 Full Review Source: Contactmusic.com
Contactmusic.com

Wahlberg and Crowe. Together at last. So overwhelming. Can't breathe for testosterone. Can't even write complete sentences.

March 1, 2013 Full Review Source: Irish Times
Irish Times

When it comes to long-form tales of political intrigue, television serials are fast encroaching on cinema's patch, and if this very ordinary thriller is the best Hollywood can do, it might as well cede the whole territory.

March 1, 2013 Full Review Source: Daily Telegraph
Daily Telegraph

When a high-powered cast like this is gathered, you have the right to expect more than mundanity.

March 1, 2013 Full Review Source: This is London
This is London

Although Broken City promises more than is ultimately delivered, it remains an easy to indulge in thriller.

March 1, 2013 Full Review Source: HeyUGuys
HeyUGuys

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January 9, 2013
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Proof Can Be a Powerful Weapon.

Great Movie! The story sold in the trailer is a bit misleading, but perhaps that's the point. I liked Broken City movie because we don't know who did what and how many people did what to whom. In other words, while we're on edge waiting for the resolution, more perpetrators enter the game and as they say, "the plot thickens." An excellent performance by Russell Crowe; and a good showing from Wahlberg too. Zeta-Jones always shines through.
"Broken City" has a few twists and turns which keep garnering the interest and attention of its audiences. All in all not a bad viewing at all!

In a city rife with injustice, ex-cop Billy Taggart seeks redemption and revenge after being double-crossed and then framed by its most powerful figure: Mayor Nicholas Hostetler.
January 24, 2013
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    1. Mayor Hostetler: Tell me things haven't changed!
    – Submitted by Chris P (3 months ago)
    1. Mayor Hostetler: There are some wars you fight and some wars you walk away from, this is the fighting kind.
    – Submitted by Chris P (3 months ago)

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