We Own the Night (2007)

Chiefly underwhelming is the descriptor that I would donate to this film's ad campaign. Here we've got a generic but inoffensive cop drama that plays by the numbers while trying its damnedest to ride the coattails movies like The Departed. You've got your generic drug deals, your generic mob connection, your generic undercover subplot, and your generic “it sucks to be a cop” melodrama. It's all here, and none of it is particularly good. That isn't to say it's a bad film. For instance the car “chase” scene is disproportionately good, and the overall production values and cinematography are excellent, but the movie as a whole just fails to impress.

5 out of 10.