Broken City

The story lacks any real sense of surprise or ingenuity, and the characters are so cookie-cutter that you can sense where pretty much every major player is going.

Fun moments hang in the rafters, fading into the side streets of Broken City as Hughes attempts to coerce us into taking him seriously as an innovative director.

The two central performances ultimately save the movie.

Even the presence of Mark Wahlberg and Russell Crowe can't save Broken City, which simply succeeds in making all its characters look silly.

Broken City may not be the most original film, but it's a good-looking and lightly entertaining one.