My general dislike of Mark Wahlberg stems from the amount of poor movies he has done where he tends to play the same type of character. But my dislike stems from the fact that he is capable of more, he is better than the usual acting dross like Jason Statham and Vin Diesel. He's put in good performances in films like The Departed, The Other Guys and The Fighter (although I felt the film was over-rated). When I saw that he was starring in Broken City I watched the trailer with skepticism but felt that the premise itself had great potential and that this could be one of the best post-Oscar films this year. The cast also features Russell Crowe, Catherine Zeta-Jones and the sublime Kyle Chandler.
NYPD Billy Taggart (Wahlberg) is arrested for murder after he kills the man who raped his girlfriends sister, he manages to escape the charges thanks to Mayor Nicholas Hostetler (Crowe) who eliminates incriminating evidence and gets him off claiming self defence. Seven years later Hostetler hires Taggart, who is on the verge of bankruptcy, to find out who his wife Cathleen (Zeta-Jones) is sleeping with but ends up finding out a lot more about the city than he bargained for.
Broken City is released in the UK on 1st March 2013 and the trailer is embedded below:
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