Broken City Reviews
Daily Star
In the end, the cards fall roughly where you'd expect them to in a clichéd thriller.
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| Original Score: 2/5
NECN
A tedious, needlessly convoluted clunker.
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| Original Score: D
Flicks.co.nz
Alarm bells started ringing when every terse exchange proved chuckle worthy.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Schmoes Know
It never gets that exciting, slows down with unnecessary plot points, and isn't anything more than a breezy Saturday afternoon cable movie.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Paste Magazine
Broken City starts and sputters, never blazing a clear path to the redemption for which its characters yearn. All the ingredients are here, but everything just ends up half baked.
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| Original Score: 6/10
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.
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| Original Score: 2/10
American Profile
Feels, looks and sounds like it's pouting that it can't be a smoldering 1940s pulp detective drama instead of a modern-day crime thriller that needs to lure audiences into multiplexes alongside screens offering far more bang for the buck.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Akron Beacon Journal
Tired and predictable.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Time Out Chicago
A political thriller that's never quite as smart as you wish it were.
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| Original Score: 3/5
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"Broken City" is a completely forgettable film. It's not a terrible movie; it features a solid cast and polished directing by Allen Hughes. It's not all that good either.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Quickflix
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.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Screen It!
'Broken City' isn't a bad movie. Just an unremarkable one. It plays like imitation Sidney Lumet. (Full Content Review for Parents also available)
Las Vegas Weekly
There's nothing actively offensive about Broken City, but there's nothing memorable or interesting about it, either.
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| Original Score: 2/5
The Sun Herald
Aside from feeling bemused and confused by the end, the web of deceit that's presented is not even vaguely believable.
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| Original Score: 5/10
JoBlo's Movie Emporium
[Broken City] is only a slight film that might be worth a rental.
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| Original Score: 5/10
Top Critic
It is not that Broken City -- boasting a cast worth big expectations -- is bad, exactly. But it is deeply mediocre. When they say television dramas are getting the better of the movies, this is the sort of middling outing that proves it.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Beliefnet
It's too bad to see top talent slumming in an underwritten, under-thought, under-whelming piece of multiplex fodder.
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| Original Score: C
A movie with Lumet-ian aspirations which, like the corrupt NYC mayor at its center, can barely handle the weight of its own ambitions.
