New York Adult Entertainment: Gang slang over the top in Brooklyn’s Finest
Tango (Cheadle) goes through a journey that seems to be most compromising with his beliefs. He yearns to gain a well-deserved promotion that will earn him a possible chance to be with his wife, yet he doesn’t want to betray Caz (Wesley Snipes), who he befriended after Caz saved his life. Try as he may, the situation goes beyond his control and the only explanation that is offered comes in the form of more mob lingo from Ellen Barkin’s character that will likely be over the heads of half of the theatre-going population. I was concerned at this lack of understanding because the vocabulary was limited, to say the least. There was so much noise most of the time that half of the words were lost anyway.
Nevertheless, the obvious drama held my attention closely. Eddie (Gere) plays a retiring cop that had obviously failed at doing anything significant with his life. When you fall in love with a prostitute that you’ve …