Brooklyn's Finest

This film proves that Antoine Fuqua's Training Day was no fluke. To take just one scene: A character is killed on the street at night and the camera fixes on his head against the pavement. Then the shot tilts, the focus blurs, and a pair of car headlights in the distance grow larger as music comes up -- the whole effect is mesmerizing. Fuqua places religious artifacts everywhere, maybe in one place too many, in fact, but the point is that there are things going on which require the viewer's attention, and which repay that attention. There are several scenes of suspense and excitement comparable to Hitchcock's work.