As it turns out, Broken City is made out of an aluminum chain of recycled Hollywood cookie cutters.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 18, 2024

Not much of anything works in Broken City, making the title more than apt.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 20, 2022

For me, the biggest problem with “Broken City” reveals itself early and persists through the entire picture. There is practically no fire or energy shown in any facet of movie.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 19, 2022

It's more like a broken record.

| Original Score: 2.0/4.0 | Sep 4, 2020

Overall, Broken City is an average thriller with equally indifferent performances.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 25, 2019

All in all, it's just an above-average thriller.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Nov 6, 2018

The story lacks any real sense of surprise or ingenuity, and the characters are so cookie-cutter that you can sense where pretty much every major player is going.

| Original Score: 3.5/10 | Nov 1, 2018

Fun moments hang in the rafters, fading into the side streets of Broken City as Hughes attempts to coerce us into taking him seriously as an innovative director.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 23, 2018

The two central performances ultimately save the movie.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 20, 2017

Even the presence of Mark Wahlberg and Russell Crowe can't save Broken City, which simply succeeds in making all its characters look silly.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 5, 2017

Broken City may not be the most original film, but it's a good-looking and lightly entertaining one.

| Jun 6, 2016

The essence of "Broken City" is forgettable, and that's its only strength. Once it's over, you won't be bothered to think about it ever again.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Apr 9, 2016

It's a local-government corruption thriller that doesn't care about logic or consistency or the people watching it.

| Jan 6, 2014

Broken City is passable, occasionally entertaining but ultimately uninspiring.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 5, 2013

A complete mess, this drama is packed with sophomoric political ideas, unfocused storylines and inane dialogue.

| Original Score: 1.0/5 | Jun 30, 2013

It is predictable procedural fodder - you can see the "twists" coming a mile away - but done with enough conviction to paper over the plot holes and cliches.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 17, 2013

It has ideas and, in places, verve, but it can't help but feel like a pretty standard thriller with some big names rather erroneously attached

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 17, 2013

Alarm bells started ringing when every terse exchange proved chuckle worthy.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 14, 2013

A solidly old-fashioned crime thriller that ploughs the familiar furrow of cops, crooks and corruption in New York City.

| Mar 14, 2013

Welcome to the broken city... where honorable anti-heroes with dark pasts can get double-crossed and mixed up with good guys who're really bad guys... where doing the right thing will put you IN TOO DEEP. It's a drag to be here.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Mar 11, 2013