6.8
21 Bridges
2019
America likes to watch.
When Eastern European criminals Oleg and Emil come to New York City to pick up their share of a heist score, Oleg steals a video camera and starts filming their activities, both legal and illegal. When they learn how the American media circus can make a remorseless killer look like the victim and make them rich, they target media-savvy NYPD Homicide Detective Eddie Flemming and media-naive FDNY Fire Marshal Jordy Warsaw, the cops investigating their murder and torching of their former criminal partner, filming everything to sell to the local tabloid TV show "Top Story."
When Eastern European criminals Oleg and Emil come to New York City to pick up their share of a heist score, Oleg steals a video camera and starts filming their activities, both legal and illegal. When they learn how the American media circus can make a remorseless killer look like the victim and make them rich, they target media-savvy NYPD Homicide Detective Eddie Flemming and media-naive FDNY Fire Marshal Jordy Warsaw, the cops investigating their murder and torching of their former criminal partner, filming everything to sell to the local tabloid TV show "Top Story."
Robert De NiroEddie Flemming
Edward BurnsJordy Warsaw
Kelsey GrammerRobert Hawkins
Avery BrooksLeon Jackson
Melina KanakaredesNicolette Karas
Karel RodenEmil Slovak
Oleg TaktarovOleg Razgul
Vera FarmigaDaphne Handlova
John DiRestaBobby Korfin
James HandyCaptain Duffy
Darius McCraryTommy Cullen
Bruce CutlerBruce Cutler
Charlize TheronRose Hearn
Kim CattrallCassandra
David Alan GrierMugger
Vladimir MashkovMilos
Arina GasanovaTamina
Noelle EvansHoney
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Liked the movie. Lots of suspense and keeping you guessing.
There's a saying in billiards: "Stripes deflect harder than chips." Make sure no arson investigators know you're gonna watch this movie, because they might finagle some hitherto unknown bylaw which forces you to watch it with them (with a bottle of Merlot and six boxes of lotion-free tissues!). Basically Robert De Niro plays the good cop to Edward Burns' bad arson investigator, in a New York City obsessed by the pseudo-homoerotic love story between a wily Czech and a roided-out Russian -- think Natural Born Killers meets Rush Hour! I'd not go into this one blind, unless you still own a functioning CRT and BetaMAX, because it is sure to cause time dysphoria (see: film induced psychosis) when you remember or realize this story could not have actually existed pre-smartphon- THIS REVIEW HAS BEEN REDACTED
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