Rating of
2.5/4
Broken City!
MovieAddict - wrote on 05/01/13
Detective Billy Taggart (Marc Wahlberg) is accused of killing Luis Tolentino, a rapist but is cleared of all charges in the courts but the case cost Billy his badge and so he moves on to become a private investigator…. Mike Hammer style. Seven years pass and Billy is starting to forget what happened and has hooked up with the sister of the rapist’s victim and has even quit drinking but then he gets a call from his old boss and Mayor Hostetler (Russell Crowe) to look into some personal business as he is right in the thick of a neck and neck re-election campaign against Councilman Barry Pepper.
The Mayor has a beautiful wife Cathleen Hostetler (Catherine Zeta-Jones), whom he suspects of adultery. And The Major is willing to pay big bucks to keep it on the down low! Billy is happy to take the job because his clients owe him a whopping $42,000 and he is been kept afloat only by the diligent efforts of his devoted secretary (Alona Tal).
He soon discovers who Cathleen is meeting with Kyle Chandler, the campaign manager for his opponent Pepper. But during his own investigation Billy learns that in politics nothing is what it's seems and Billy's own past comes back to haunt him.
Not a perfect movie but still an enjoyable watch. Russel Crowe gives his usually strong performance, Wahlberg is appealing and Catherine Z-Jones delivers a solid performance as the mayor's allegedly unfaithful wife.
