“Police on the scene, you know what I mean. They passed me up confronted all the dope fiends.” (Ice Ice Baby, Vanilla Ice)

Everyday the police, as in other professions, certainly keeps the story interesting. However, in Indonesia, which tells very little about this. Whether because of fear of loss, or indeed the rules so strict?

Unlike Hollywood, a lot of which are appointed. Similarly with ‘Brooklyn’s Finest’ by director Antoine Fuqua.

In this film, viewers were treated to the representation of police in three characters and three different story. Multiplot style is so right figure presents the three different backgrounds but have much in common: apart from both the New York police, they are human beings who have hopes, anxieties, fears, and anger. In a word: emotion. All three stories are not related but all three met several times in several scenes.

Dugan Eddie (Richard Gere) is a senior police officer medioker and find a way safely and carefully. He was taking no chances. Not surprisingly, his colleagues, including a new children who are still apprentices, consider it a loser and a coward. Her life was lonely, his wife divorced him and his girlfriend a whore. The problem is, seven days is a big moment in his life: his retirement after working 22 years! Would he still be considered useless?

Clarence “Tango” Butler (Don Cheadle) is a cop in disguise but was bored with it. Because he feels his life is lost, even his wife divorced him. He is very close to the Casanova Philips (Wesley Snipes, his first appearance after five years) to help her when she was undercover at the prison. What actions, if assigned to spy on her friend, for the sake of a few career?

Meanwhile, Salvatore “Sal” Procida ((Ethan Hawke) is a cop antinarkoba which urged the need to move house, but was unable to pay upfront. What article? His wife is ill because his poor sanitation, and she was pregnant with twins, while they already have plenty sons and daughters. Sal was a devout Catholic (back filled with religious symbols, as well as statues, crosses, cross necklaces, and more) were stricken inner war between adherence to religious norms or economic pressure? At confession, he cried, after giving notice of that he did not need forgiveness, but God’s help. Then there was this: before killing and robbing drug dealers money, he always prayed.

All three main actors playing police slick. And the story also contains political and social criticism, especially about the corrupt police. For example, Eddie was asked to connect the death of a child due to negligence of a policeman beginners with drugs? Something that is against their conscience being stricken with guilt. Or is there some police characters so annoying that we wanted to punch their faces? So even though she was a woman?

What is also interesting to note is the sound of noisy trains and disrupt the dialogue, as part spreading insecurity. The film is so close to reality because there disyut: Manhattan, Queens, and Brooklyn. Included in Brownsville, Housing Van Dyke, Rego Park, and housing Louis Pink.

Another big role is the screenwriter, Michael Martin, who was close to the City of New York, and even studied film at Brooklyn College. Minor details of the noise, drugs, etc. – in slums that became its own breath and form mental landscape of a city chaos and crime in the United States ranked first.

Suddenly I remembered the old Beastie Boys song, ‘No Sleep’ till Brooklyn ‘, which describes the atmosphere of this city well: “Another plane, another train Another bottle in the brain, Another girl – another fight, Another drive all night?” — Toto Prayogo