Brooklyn Rules doesn't exactly rule, but fans of the cast will find much to enjoy.
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07/13/07
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Brooklyn Rules (2007)
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Reviews Counted:38
Fresh:18
Rotten:20
Average Rating:5.5/10
Consensus: Brooklyn Rules’ premise is old hat now, but strong performances from Alec Baldwin and the supporting cast are reasons enough to watch.
Theatrical Release:2007-05
Box Office: $241,925
Synopsis: Written by three-time Emmy winner Terence Winter (The Sopranos), Brooklyn Rules is a powerful story of loyalty, friendship, and sacrifice. Set in Brooklyn circa 1985 against the backdrop of John... [More]
Starring: Alec Baldwin, Freddie Prinze, Scott Caan, Jerry Ferrara
Director: Michael Corrente
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Reviews for Brooklyn Rules
Brooklyn Rules is a watchable flick but it's also tired and derivative, which is a shame given the talent involved.
06/22/07
Singularly unoriginal, full of clichés and tough-neighborhood set pieces tied together with GoodFellas-style voice-over narration.
07/12/07
If we were playing by mob rules, this movie would get the 'slicer' treatment for trying to impersonate a Scorsese picture.
08/03/07
Ah, the nostalgic mob drama. No matter the brutality, the blood, or the sheer fear that shape the memory, movies and TV tend to make life in the mob a growth experience.
05/30/07
How many sophomoric insults can three Brooklyn teens hurl in five minutes? About 894.
05/17/07
The friends, the neighborhood, the loyalty, the bloodshed, Alec Baldwin playing a bad-ass wise guy... feel free to stop me when all this stops sounding familiar.
05/18/07
Should you see this '80s mafia drama? Fugeddaboudit.
08/22/08
If Winter had an extraordinary youth, it eludes Brooklyn Rules, another generic memory piece in which the now-successful writer takes us on a thinly veiled tour of the burger joints, bowling alleys and faces from his formative grunge years.
05/17/07
Top CriticA sometimes funny, occasionally maudlin coming-of-age dramedy that wants to be Goodfellas but might have been called Mild in the Streets.
09/22/07
Top CriticAbsolutely nothing to recommend the film as anything other than a sagging collection of predictable clichés and brain-numbing boredom.
08/01/07
Whether it's read as an exclamation of borough pride or as a set of unwritten laws governing its residents, the movie takes a well-trodden path in chronicling the lives of three Italian American friends, circa 1985.
09/20/07
Vivid work by Alec Baldwin as a brutal Gambino crime family captain isn't enough to justify the sub-Scorsese stylings of Michael Corrente's Brooklyn Rules.
05/18/07
Top Critica fuzzy film sporting more bad Brooklyn accents and mob-movie cliches than Knockaround Guys which, all things considered, is hard to do.
12/18/07
Aggressively derivative.
09/22/07
A blatant Scorsese knock-off with a few Godfather and A Bronx Tale flourishes thrown in for good measure.
05/02/07
Years after Federal Hill (1994), director Michael Corrente is still doing low-budget Mean Streets knockoffs.
05/30/07
Top CriticAs a longtime writer on The Sopranos, Terence Winter has steered clear of most of the hoary organized-crime clichés. Instead, he's poured them all into director Michael Corrente's anemic urban drama.
05/15/07
However authentic and heartfelt this film’s depiction of life on the meaner streets of the Northeast corridor may be, it doesn’t begin to match The Sopranos' epic vision of violence, class struggle and upward mobility in a barbarous culture.
09/22/07
Top Critic...Winter's coming-of-age-in-the-1980s saga is content to rewalk the same mean streets, never ducking into one alley or back room we haven't visited.
07/13/07
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