Eye Candy #291 - "Pride and Glory"

Pride and Glory:  Even though this stars Colin Farrell and Edward Norton, this is a strictly by-the-numbers entry into the dirty cop/good cop milieu that’s become a genre unto itself.  The story of various NYPD officers and their varying degrees of criminal culpability, with Farrell turning in a mediocre performance as a vile officer willing to threaten an infant with a hot iron to the face to get what he wants (and for some reason, the director tries desperately to make this amoral piece of trash SYMPATHETIC.  What the crap?!).  Brings nothing new to the table (but then again, what has since “Serpico“, thirty years ago?).  You’ve seen this plot before.  Watch “The Departed” or “Copland” or “Dark Blue”.  They all have better scripts.  This one bored the heck out of me.  Woodchuck sez, “Skip it.”