New York Adult Entertainment: Bleak, dark vision of police work in ‘Brooklyn’s Finest’
Fuqua demonstrates that things are no better on the other side of the country on the equally cruel streets of Brooklyn. Life is so bleak in this New York borough that it feels more like the 1970s, prior to urban renewal and the attendant gentrification of crumbling neighborhoods.
What’s crumbling in Brooklyn is the fortune of three Brooklyn cops, each one unaware of the other even though they work out of the same precinct. Their turf is one of the most dangerous neighborhoods, a situation amplified early on by an officer shooting of a black youth and the simmering anger and hostility of local residents.
Eddie (Richard Gere), a veteran cop about a week away from retirement, wakes up to a morning ritual of a few shots of whiskey and putting a gun in his mouth as practice for suicide. This sad sack lives alone in a shabby apartment and just wants to make it through the day so he can spend some time under the covers with his prostitute girlfriend (Shannon Kane).