One film vying for your early year attention this January will be the thriller Broken City directed by Allen Hughes (Book of Eli) and starring Mark Wahlberg, Russell Crowe and Catherine Zeta-Jones. As with most early year releases this one raises a few eyebrows as it appears to believe it has some tricks up its sleeve, but those tricks never really seem to be quite as impressive as the trailer makes them out to be.
“Nothing is what it appears,” the trailer boasts. Well, by saying that aren’t you sort of lifting the veil off your supposed mystery, by letting us in on the fact there’s a mystery at all?
The film features Wahlberg as an ex-cop-turned-private detective who is hired by the mayor (Crowe) to see if his wife is cheating on him. The private eye confirms those suspicions, and when the mayor’s wife’s cheating partner ends up dead, the private eye immerses himself in the mayor’s business and uncovers a real estate scandal that involves the mayor dealing himself choice city-owned properties.
Broken City hits theaters on January 18. Check out the trailer below.
