Pride and Glory (Cert 15)

Film Review

Finally, it gets shoved out the week after Bond. Makes me think no one really cares - and you probably won't.

Think about every movie you've ever seen about police corruption and you've got Pride And Glory.

Cliched dialogue is matched only by the predictable twists and "surprises" that await us.

I'm either cynical or I've just seen far too many of this kind of movie.

Edward Norton, Colin Farrell, above, and Jon Voight play one of those multigenerational Irish-American cop families who find themselves caught up in a New York Police Department corruption scandal.

After four cops are killed in what looks like a bungled drug bust, Chief Detective Francis Tierney Senior (Voight) asks his son Detective Ray Tierney (Norton) to head up the investigation.

Ray is a good cop. Brother-in-law Jimmy (Farrell) is a dirty cop who will do anything necessary to get information.

When Ray's investigation begins to turn up corruption directly implicating his family - especially Jimmy - he shares his worries with his father, who tells him to leave it alone.

Ray is torn. Will he do the right thing or look the other way for the sake of family?

Pride And Glory depicts a gritty, grimy New York which looks exactly like the gritty, grimy New York we see all the time in similar movies and hit US TV dramas such as The Wire and The Shield.

The saving grace here is some notable and worthy turns from a solid cast.

But, ultimately there's nothing here we haven't seen before.