He’s known as “a trigger.” And no one on the force will mind if this case ends with bloodshed. The son of a slain officer, Davis has shot eight people in nine years. Andre Davis (Boseman) is put in charge of the investigation, largely because of his shoot-first reputation. A drug heist goes awry leaving seven cops dead. The story is simple, even if the arithmetic isn’t. The movie’s original title was “17 Bridges.” Accounting errors are one thing, but misplacing the Queensboro Bridge plus three more doesn’t exactly engender confidence in the entire enterprise. The filmmakers, themselves, very nearly got it wrong. Even if its best trick is informing you, in case you ever wondered, how many bridges there are crossing into Manhattan. It’s a just-good-enough New York crime thriller, made with sufficient slinky shadows and leading-man charisma to do the trick. How excited James Brown would have been for “21 Bridges.” Take you to bridge? How about 21 of them?īut I suspect even the Godfather of Soul would give an easy pass to Brian Kirk’s “21 Bridges,” with Chadwick Boseman (who played Brown in the biopic “Get on Up”).
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