This film has a significant cast, and when I first spotted it coming out, I was hoping for big things!
If you haven't looked already, it's about an undercover team of cops trying to take down a mob boss by crushing his operations, rather than him personally, and is based loosely on a true story. The cast includes two of my current top 5 in Ryan Gosling and Michael Peña, as well as an old favorite in Josh Brolin, and the up and coming Emma Stone.
When the film started I wasn't too impressed with some of the scenery and the way it was being set up or laid out, but as the film went on I started to feel my way in to it more, with Gosling and Brolin playing two very good parts, and Pena having a small but rewarding part too.
In the end I think while they've taken quite a lot of creative license with the story, and put quite a lot of Hollywood in to it, it's actually not so bad, and it comes together quite nicely, if not a bit stuffed with some poor montaging!
Either way, give it a watch and see what you think. I've given it a 7.6.
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