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Article: Review: `Pride and Glory' a formulaic cop thriller
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- October 24, 2008
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Everything about the dirty cop thriller "Pride and Glory" is formulaic and forgettable, even down to its generic title.
It could be an uplifting drama about a basketball team breaking racial barriers, or it could be about an elite squadron of World War II fighter pilots. You'd never know the difference and it wouldn't matter anyway. Instead, "Pride and Glory" is an overlong saga of good and bad New York police officers battling for control, one that plays out both in back alleys and quiet suburbs.
Edward Norton and Colin Farrell chew up the scenery and spit it back out again as brothers-in-law and brothers in blue. When a cop killer takes down four of ...