Movie Review: "Broken City"

Broken City is not an unwatchable movie, but it's not a great movie either.  A standard, run-of-the-mill political thriller about corrupt politicians and the private eye caught in the middle of it all, is elevated by the turns of Mark Wahlberg and Russell Crowe, but the script itself is bland and a little too on the nose for it to ever be believable or emotionally involving.  When a character is flat-out telling you everything about their backstory, rather than letting you piece it together through visuals and subtext, that's when you know the script doesn't always work.  Even still, there are good moments to be found here and there, but there's nothing about this movie that's any different than any similar movie ever released, and most of those do everything a lot better.  Want my advice, watch Serpico or All the President's Men instead.

I give Broken City a D-!