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Cast

Chadwick Boseman

Sienna Miller

Stephan James

Keith David

Taylor Kitsch

J.K. Simmons

Jayson Ward Williams
as Ear Hair

John Crann
as Officer Brown

Shawn Gonzalez
as Officer Marino

Louis Cancelmi
as Bush

Johnny Christos
as Police Lieutenant

Michael Garvey
as NYPD Officer

Lucky Harmon
as NYPD Officer

Juan Aro Sanchez
as NYPD Officer

Dave Shaver
as NYPD Officer

John Terranova
as Officer Rizzo

Robert Poletick
as Police Lawyer

Julie Potter
as Angry Wife

Dale Pavinski
as Tom Cheever

Robin Rieger
as News Anchor

Peter Patrikios
as Leigh's Boyfriend

David Palmieri
as Blue-Collar

Paul Monte Jr.
as Reporter

Greg Murphy
as Police Officer

Craig Newman
as BBC News Anchor

Jamie Neumann
as Leigh

Emily-Grace Murray
as Reporter

Morocco Omari
as Antoine Matt

Chris Monte
as Salsa Dancer

Wayne Mitchell
as Radio News Anchor

Gemma McIlhenny
as Azu

Katie McClellan
as Kim

Darren Lipari
as Lt. Kelly

Dominic Costa
as Angry Neighbor #3

Toby Hemingway

Jason A. Iannacone
as NYPD Officer

Charmar Jeter
as NYPD

Rodney Jones
as Family Member at Funeral

Annie Pisapia
as Family Member

Sarah Ellen Stephens
as Vonetta Simpson

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• Nov 22, 2019

  21 Bridges would have been a more interesting movie if it had simply been a conversation between the police detective, Andre David (Chadwick Boseman), and the mayor of New York City as he proposes shuttling all twenty-one bridges leading out of Manhattan to catch a pair of cop killers. My pal Ben Bailey surmised it should go with the mayor flatly refusing and telling them they should use actual police investigative work to catch the criminals, like all criminals, instead. It's not like Manhattan houses millions of people with deep subway networks and somebody could remain unseen for some time, or the fact that there are more ways off an island than bridges. This concept doesn't even factor into the story in a meaningful way; the police could have just as easily used the bridges as checkpoints for the difference it makes. This eliminates the ticking clock factor. Another miscalculation was splitting so much of the narrative between the two sides, Andre and the cops doing the hunting, and the criminals trying to run away. I'm not emotionally invested in these guys escaping, and it doesn't ratchet tension as the cops get closer. If anything it alleviates tension as I know we're closer to them being captured. The shootouts, foot chases, car chases, and machismo barking are all serviceable from director Brian Kirk, a veteran television director. It's all fine if this is a genre you enjoy but there isn't anything new in 21 Bridges, or anything new that works, to open up that entertainment for anyone else. It's entirely predictable every step of the way, enough that I was correctly presaged the real villains before the movie even started. The actors all do respectable work. It's all competent from top to bottom, but it's in service for a forgettable by-the-numbers cop thriller. I have to believe the original script for this was something more daring, perhaps opening up Andre's character and his reputation as a "cop killer killer" and what effects that has had on him. He really shouldn't be the hero. He should be the guy who comes to learn a culpability being part of a corrupt system of justice, pushing him toward an anti-hero reclamation. What we get isn't even close to that level of character exploration, so I must believe 21 Bridges was noted to death by studio exec mismanagement. Otherwise what did the star of Black Panther and the directors of Avengers: Endgame see in this story that urgently had to be told on the big screen? It feels like some relic from the 90s that would have starred Wesley Snipes and absent any modern commentary on the role of a police state in urban communities. Alas, you get what you get with 21 Bridges, which could have been 18 Bridges, but some exec must have said, "No, that's not enough bridges. But 30 is too many. Gentlemen, were gonna stay up all night if we have to in order to solve this number-of-bridges puzzle." If you have a soft spot for this kind of thriller genre, you might find some fleeting moments of entertainment. Everyone else can look away. Nate's Grade: C+
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