Rating: 5/10
Movies I've previously seen: 6
First time viewings: 99
The fact that "Broken City" stars two Oscar winners and one Oscar nominee (actually two, but Griffin Dunne's wasn't an acting category) may catch your attention. However, this is really an unremarkable political thriller in which Crowe is the mayor, Zeta-Jones is his wife, and Wahlberg is the former cop hired to follow her. Naturally, corruption ensues.
However (SPOILER ALERT), one plot device that gets used should be retired from film, and that would be the secretly recorded conversation, in which the bad guy reveals his entire scheme. In this day of cell phones, the NSA scandal, etc., being recorded isn't that much of a surprise. To the writer's credit, they try to add a twist by turning the tables on Wahlberg and play a game of who has the juiciest recording. All in all, not a memorable entry.
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