Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Pacionsbo Absolutely Fantastic

Kaelan Mccaffrey Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Uriah43 After catching a glimpse of his father being killed "Malo" (Curtis Jackson) decides to follow in his footsteps and become a police officer too. As soon as he graduates from the police academy an old friend of his father by the name of "Joe Sarcone" (Robert De Niro) reaches out to him and offers him a position within his precinct under the condition that he fully participates in the corruption that Joe Sarcone oversees. Malo willingly agrees and gets his two childhood friends who graduated with him to join as well. In no time he and his friends become even worse than the criminals on the street. Now rather than reveal any more of this movie and risk spoiling it for those who haven't seen it I will just say that this film left me somewhat disappointed. The main reason was that it lacked realism. Big time. Likewise, some of the actors just didn't seem to fit their character assignments. In any case, I suppose it was an okay movie but quite frankly I have a hard time rating it any higher than average.

Rich Wright Take out all the scenes of coke-snorting, erotic dancing, fast-motion long shots of New York and endless swearing and you'll probably be left with just half an hour. Which would STILL be too long. It's a shapeless mess with lots of well known actors who should know better, being all 'hard' and 'street'. This is just a front, though... the reality is that this is more pantomime than grit. Every time someone whips out a gun, cusses or lets fly with their fists it all feels fake and rehearsed, as if this was a Hollywood executive's idea of a ghetto.. when he'd been living in a mansion at Beverly Hills for all his life.It's staggering to contemplate that this production contains not one, but TWO Oscar winners. Forest Whitaker I can understand... he's second only to Cuba Gooding Jr in the slumming Academy Award winners stake. But Robert De Niro... what a shocker. This is, without a doubt, this worst film I've seen him in. The sad fact is, he lends gravitas to his role in a film with no use for it. And there's barely anything more depressing than a writer trying to script what he thinks is a complex ending, which is about 100 times less intelligent than he thinks it is.Lastly, this movie is known as Crossfire here in the good ol' UK. Perhaps they should have changed it further, and retitled it Misfire. Tee hee, I made a funny... 4/10

Josh Grant Where do i start with this film. It had a good concept, i liked how it went for a bit of a Drive style look at polar opposite racism within police units and showing how newbies can be coerced not just into corruption but also racist views from their role model senior partners and it also showed direct and indirect racism. Where this film went wrong was the casting of 50 cent. Similarly to 'Man with the Iron Fist' in which RZA cast himself as the lead, 50 cent just really fell short here, he's a C grade actor at best and despite each scene being carried by better actors than him, he was a rather large stain on a Picasso that can now be chucked in the trash. Again similar to RZA where he single handedly assassinated his own movie Man with the Iron Fist, 50 cent let this one down with his inability to show any expression. His delivery contained about 60% confidence, which is actually more than i would expect from him but still made the movie look like a school play rather than a Hollywood product. Maybe 50 cent looked at Hollywood stars like Vin Diesel, Mark Walburg or the Rock and thought that acting looks quite easy to do, well one thing he might not know is that these actors have genuine charisma in their everyday persona's which is why their scenes pan out the way they do, 50 cent however does not and this movie really shun the spotlight on a very insecure actor and an even more insecure individual in my opinion, his eyes glowed with fear the entire movie. 50 cent's character would be bread and butter for any actor with talent as the character had the ability to be quite complex and display a variety of emotions through out the movie, from animosity, regret, hostility, moral conflict, relief etc. 50 cent however did none of these, the time when he wasn't reciting dialog, he spent absent and expressionless when in these moments, a picture speaks a thousand words and are probably more important than the dialog, as demonstrated by Forest Whitakers character when first introduced. For a gang-banger, you'd at least think 50 cent could hold a gun with confidence, his so called heartfelt negotiation with the youth was actually laughable. A few rappers can act, Common, Ice Cube, Xzibit, Dr Dre even Eminem. 50 cent however is as far down from the list as you can get. 50 cent struggles to get a solid 3 minute music video to look like he has confidence, let alone a full length movie, don't quit your day job, stick to making music and crappy Beats by Dre ripoffs.

mjacksongta I thought that De Niro's great acting would over come the presence of 50 cent and his horrible "acting" I was wrong. the 2 minutes of total screen time De Niro had was barley noticeable. I hate to say it but He must have just wanted to pick up a pay cheque. 50's acting was much improved from the last roll I saw with him in it in Ritious kill but maybe that was just because he had a smaller part and De Niro had Pachino to help drown out him out.The script seemed mixed up, they seem to put every kind of token cop from every cop movie i've ever seen before and then just switch their roles for the fun of it. maybe fun for the writers and directors but not so fun for us viewers. The IMDb rating of 4.4 is definitely justified.I gave it a generous 4/10