Director Antoine Fuqua may have an uneven directorial record, but there’s always something slick and watchable about his films, from “Training Day” to 2007’s tepid “Shooter.” Fuqua’s new film is a crime thriller called “Brooklyn’s Finest,” and it looks to be in the vein of the former, not the latter, even though it includes Richard Gere in a starring role. Thankfully, Gere will be backed up by the likes of Don Cheadle, Ethan Hawke, Wesley Snipes, and Vincent D’Onofrio, among others. The trailer isn’t an official theatrical cut, but it still makes the film look like an entertaining, violent portrayal of street crime. So yeah, pretty much like “Training Day.”
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Next up is “Why Did I Get Married Too?,” one of the seemingly dozens of films directed or produced by Tyler Perry that come out on a yearly basis. I’m not particularly interested in the film or excited about its release, but its IMDB entry intrigues me. The movie is listed as a comedy, but the trailer makes it look like a thriller full of Machiavellian marital alliances, complete with scenes of violent rage and an ominous score to match. Come April 2010, get ready to either laugh it up or grip your seat in terror.
The new trailer for the upcoming vampire film “Daybreakers” is only a minute long and is basically just a compressed version of the first trailer. Nonetheless, I’m posting it because I like Ethan Hawke and Willem Dafoe and because I’m excited about a movie that doesn’t make vampires look like complete candy-asses (thanks, Robert Pattinson and co.). For those of you who are unaware of the movie, a plague has turned most of humanity into vampires and the remaining humans are hunted down and farmed for blood. The trailer actually looks pretty cool, so check it out below.
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