Reviews for this film from our members:
- [New – 5/30] | Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
- Kevin Carr @ 7M Pictures
- Excerpt: with half of the Hughes Brothers, you end up with less than half of a film
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Every important character is sketched out to a point of engagement, only to be allowed to drift off into a vague vapor. There are exceptions, but not enough to make this anything other than standard issue genre fare, albeit one of solid craft.
- Tony Dayoub @ Cinema Viewfinder
- Excerpt: It’s almost as if [director Allen] Hughes is only sketching out the shape of a [Sidney] Lumet film in the manner one would when paying homage to a genre.
- Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: What the movie lacks and desperately needs is personality.
- Dustin Freeley @ Movies About Gladiators.com
- Excerpt: Acting talent can’t make up for silly, improbable events.
- Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
- Excerpt: A mundane melodrama, filled with caricatures instead of characters.
- MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that this script had been sitting around, unproduced, for 20 years, it’s that musty…
- Danny King @ The King Bulletin
- Excerpt: [A]s absurdly bad as [some] scenes are, I can’t say I was ever unengaged while watching ‘Broken City,’ and I had a good time with the movie even when it lost its grip on the material.
- Oktay Ege Kozak @ Oregon Herald
- Excerpt: Broken City feels like a two hour premiere of a TV show networks love to plaster all over the brand new fall schedule, full of slick TV visuals, promising all kinds of political intrigue, scandals, backstabbing and a bunch of good looking people.
- Simon Miraudo @ Quickflix
- Darren Mooney @ the m0vie blog
- Excerpt: If it ain’t broke…
- Jason Pirodsky @ Expats.cz
- Excerpt: Or, Broken Movie: Allen Hughes’ Broken City shows all the telltale signs of post-production tampering, which has resulted in a choppy film full of loose ends, characters who switch allegiance at a whim, a hard-to-decipher plot driven not by events or characters but by arbitrary contrivance, and mandatory twists and turns that are completely underwhelming.
- Marcio Sallem @ Em Cartaz [Portuguese]
- Tom Santilli @ Examiner.com
- Excerpt: It didn’t end up resonating with me as much as it seems it should have, given the talented cast, but Broken City is far from a broken film.
- Amir Siregar @ Flick Magazine [Indonesian]
- Frank Swietek @ One Guy’s Opinion
- Excerpt: A thrill-free, strangely sluggish political potboiler.
