Broken City (2013)

	Broken City (2013)  109 min   -   Crime | Drama | Thriller An ex-cop trailing the wife of New York City's mayor finds himself immersed in a larger scandal. Director:  Allen Hughes Stars:  Mark Wahlberg, Russell Crowe, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Kyle Chandler

THE BUZZ: From Menace II Society through The Book of Eli, Allen and Albert Hughes always worked in tandem as directors and producers, but Allen has gone solo for this presumably hard-boiled genre film written by Brian Tucker, who has no produced screenplays to his credit but has two projects in development -- a remake of Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance and Basic Instinct soundalike called The Arrangement. Looking at Mark Wahlberg's upcoming movies, this one almost gets lost in the shuffle; for Russell Crowe, it's a pivotal role between a potential Oscar nomination for Les Misérables and his take on the character Jor-El in the Superman reboot Man of Steel.