filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Claire Dunne One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Usamah Harvey The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Rich Wright Take out all the scenes of coke-snorting, erotic dancing, fast-motion long shots of New York and endless swearing and you'll probably be left with just half an hour. Which would STILL be too long. It's a shapeless mess with lots of well known actors who should know better, being all 'hard' and 'street'. This is just a front, though... the reality is that this is more pantomime than grit. Every time someone whips out a gun, cusses or lets fly with their fists it all feels fake and rehearsed, as if this was a Hollywood executive's idea of a ghetto.. when he'd been living in a mansion at Beverly Hills for all his life.It's staggering to contemplate that this production contains not one, but TWO Oscar winners. Forest Whitaker I can understand... he's second only to Cuba Gooding Jr in the slumming Academy Award winners stake. But Robert De Niro... what a shocker. This is, without a doubt, this worst film I've seen him in. The sad fact is, he lends gravitas to his role in a film with no use for it. And there's barely anything more depressing than a writer trying to script what he thinks is a complex ending, which is about 100 times less intelligent than he thinks it is.Lastly, this movie is known as Crossfire here in the good ol' UK. Perhaps they should have changed it further, and retitled it Misfire. Tee hee, I made a funny... 4/10

Josh Grant Where do i start with this film. It had a good concept, i liked how it went for a bit of a Drive style look at polar opposite racism within police units and showing how newbies can be coerced not just into corruption but also racist views from their role model senior partners and it also showed direct and indirect racism. Where this film went wrong was the casting of 50 cent. Similarly to 'Man with the Iron Fist' in which RZA cast himself as the lead, 50 cent just really fell short here, he's a C grade actor at best and despite each scene being carried by better actors than him, he was a rather large stain on a Picasso that can now be chucked in the trash. Again similar to RZA where he single handedly assassinated his own movie Man with the Iron Fist, 50 cent let this one down with his inability to show any expression. His delivery contained about 60% confidence, which is actually more than i would expect from him but still made the movie look like a school play rather than a Hollywood product. Maybe 50 cent looked at Hollywood stars like Vin Diesel, Mark Walburg or the Rock and thought that acting looks quite easy to do, well one thing he might not know is that these actors have genuine charisma in their everyday persona's which is why their scenes pan out the way they do, 50 cent however does not and this movie really shun the spotlight on a very insecure actor and an even more insecure individual in my opinion, his eyes glowed with fear the entire movie. 50 cent's character would be bread and butter for any actor with talent as the character had the ability to be quite complex and display a variety of emotions through out the movie, from animosity, regret, hostility, moral conflict, relief etc. 50 cent however did none of these, the time when he wasn't reciting dialog, he spent absent and expressionless when in these moments, a picture speaks a thousand words and are probably more important than the dialog, as demonstrated by Forest Whitakers character when first introduced. For a gang-banger, you'd at least think 50 cent could hold a gun with confidence, his so called heartfelt negotiation with the youth was actually laughable. A few rappers can act, Common, Ice Cube, Xzibit, Dr Dre even Eminem. 50 cent however is as far down from the list as you can get. 50 cent struggles to get a solid 3 minute music video to look like he has confidence, let alone a full length movie, don't quit your day job, stick to making music and crappy Beats by Dre ripoffs.

kenh87 I thought this movie had a chance with De Niro and Forest Whitaker in it. It did not. Definitely the worst movie I have seen in years. Possibly the worst I have ever seen.The story is thin, completely unrealistic and a total cliché of 100 other cop movies. That would be bad enough but it manages to make every stolen scene and storyline worse than it ever was before. I can't think of any character or any scene in the whole movie that is believable.Any eight year-old or person with an IQ above 70 could churn out a better movie in 10 minutes of thought. I only hope than anybody involved in this worthless piece of self-promotion never works in the business again. We could only be so lucky.

Turtle Heart The apparent star of this improbable film, Curtis 50 Cents Jackson, mumbles his way through his lines, making me desperately wish for subtitles. How he landed this role is a question, because acting is not something he knows how to do at all. So they stuff the cast with gems like DeNiro and Whitaker, trying to trick us into believing there is actually a film here...but there is not. It starts off promising enough but half-way through we find out what happened to 50 Cent's father in the film, and so this one detail has the whole film fall apart and it is all downhill after that. It is interesting to see DiNiro and Whitaker and a cast of "bad" cops, there could have been a great little dark film here. But the story has so many holes and 50 Cents is such a terrible actor is just begs the question as to why this film was made. In recent years DiNiro has made some really bad films, and this should be cause for worry. Is DiNiro becoming like Jack Nicholson who is no longer capable of making a film anyone would ever want to watch? If so, why? What has happened? I have no idea who Curtis 50 Cents Jackson is, but he is not an actor; he is nearly unwatchable in this flat, dull film.