Burned out veteran Eddie Dugan (Richard Gere) is just one week away from his pension and a fishing cabin in Connecticut. Narcotics officer Sal Procida (Ethan Hawke) has discovered there's no line he won't cross to provide a better life for his long-suffering wife and seven children. And Clarence "Tango" Butler (Don Cheadle) has been undercover so long his loyalties have started to shift from his fellow police officers to his prison buddy Caz (Wesley Snipes), one of Brooklyn's most infamous drug dealers. With personal and work pressures bearing down on them, each man faces daily tests of judgment and honor in one of the world's most difficult jobs. When NYPD's Operation Clean Up targets the notoriously drug-ridden BK housing project, all three officers find themselves swept away by the violence and corruption of Brooklyn's gritty 65th Precinct and its most treacherous criminals. During seven fateful days, Eddie, Sal and Tango find themselves hurtling inextricably toward the same fatal crime scene and a shattering collision with destiny.This movie is just kind of there. I didn't get remotely hooked by any of the stories or characters. It was some of the most overdramatic stuff I've seen in a long time. The movie is also waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too long. This could have easily been a tighter 90 minute movie and I probably would have been much more in to it. Running at a little over 2 hours, I was dying to find out that there was still an hour left when I was ready to pull the plug. I still watched the whole thing and even though all the seperate stories come together somewhat, I really didn't care about any of them enough to be too interested.
I wouldn't really recommend this movie to anyone. You can just go ahead and wait for it to be on cable one night when you can't fall asleep or one morning if you are being too lazy to get out of bed.
