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"&lt;wm:embed type=\"related\"&gt;&lt;/wm:embed&gt;&lt;p&gt;Another January dud. &lt;em&gt;Broken City&lt;/em&gt; drops hot-shot actors in a quicksand of clich&amp;#xE9;s and watches them sink. Like last week&amp;apos;s &lt;a href=\"../../movies/reviews/gangster-squad-20130110\"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Gangster Squad&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Broken City&lt;/em&gt; thinks its &lt;em&gt;Chinatown&lt;/em&gt;. Talk about delusional. Mark Wahlberg stars a Billy Taggart, a New York cop forced to resign after a controversial shooting. But Mayor Nicholas Hostetler (Russell Crow) has his back. He hires Billy, now a private investigator, to catch Mrs. Mayor (Catherine Zeta-Jones) screwing around. What seems like a simple adultery case opens a rat&amp;apos;s nest of political corruption. Allen Hughes, going solo as director without his brother Albert (oh for the glory days of their &lt;a href=\"../../movies/reviews/menace-ii-society-19930526\"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Menace II Society&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;), is totally sidetracked by a caffeinated script by newcomer Brian Tucker that runs the gamut from hyper to frenzied. Wahlberg stays solid as the movie goes kaflooey. But I kept wishing his recent costar Ted, the trash-talking bear, would show up and set this movie straight. I mean someone needs to call bullshit on Crowe, struggling with a New Yawk accent, for playing the Mayor in a bad rug and a worse spray tan. This is a broken movie.&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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