Broken City (2013) 6/10

Starring : Mark Wahlberg, Russell Crowe, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Jeffrey Wright, Barry Pepper
Director : Allen Hughes
Running Time : 105 mins

Seven years after quitting his job as a police officer, Billy Taggart (Wahlberg) has turned private detective and is employed by current mayor Nicholas Hostetler (Crowe) to investigate the movements of his wife Cathleen (Zeta-Jones), suspecting she is having an affair. When he discovers she is meeting with a man who is co-ordinating an opposing mayoral campaign, Taggart starts to suspect that Hostetler’s request for him to tail his wife may be for another reason when the campaigner turns up dead...

Although this has a plot that has been done to death over the years, this had the potential to be an entertaining movie. Sadly there is little or no charisma present in any of the actors involved, and there are so many clichés that you immediately know who the good guys and the bad guys are, even when you’re not really supposed to. My advice would be to watch something else, because this has so much unnecessary filler that it starts to distract you from what the main plot really is.

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