21 Bridges

Have watched it

rip boseman

Seven NYPD cops have been shot dead in Brooklyn, and the perps have fled into Manhattan. Chadwick Boseman, himself the son of an officer slain in the line of duty, orders all 21 bridges out of the city shut down.... even though there are actually 17 of them. You may not care for my picking on this point, a matter of my usual dissatisfaction with the way New York City is portrayed in films.... a movie geography that bears little relationship to reality. Sienna Miller plays a cop with an accent that no one under 70 has in reality, and the streets of Manhattan don't look like that, nor do any of the three subway stations on 23rd Street. Were the 17 bridges and four tunnels leading out of New York closed for half an hour, even in the dead of the night, traffic throughout the city would be snarled past all movement. Let it go, Bob! Enjoy this seedy neo-noir about corruption that reaches everywhere in New York for what it is! The problem is that when things like that are so obviously false, then it's impossible to accept any of it. No matter how many times every character - except Boseman - drops the f-bomb, proving their sincerity and reality. Well, at least the scenes at Grand Central were shot there.

I just got out of 21 Bridges It's predictable (The twists are obvious) the dialogue is also routine and predictable (my son was saying some of the lines before the actors) but overall, I enjoyed it. A decent enough way to pass 90 minutes Chadwick Bosnan is an effective leader and JK Simmons offers solid support but the always awesome Kieth David was under used and whilst the rest of the cast (Sienna Miller, Taylor Kitch) is all fine, it Stephen James was the stand out for me, I actually wanted him to get away at times. There were only 19 other people in my screening