Pride & Glory

Edward Norton and Colin Farrell unite here in a multi-generational family cop drama. It's the tale of Ray (Norton), the latest in a long line of New York police officers, who finds his loyalties thrown into disarray when investigating a case that appears to involve his own brother and brother-in-law.

Cinematic history is not short on movies worrying over the moral dilemmas of New York cops, and the great disappointment here is that director Gavin O'Connor never allows the film to rise above the formulaic and the flimsy.

It's especially dispiriting because in Norton and Farrell we have two actors capable of conveying both hulking masculinity and gentle intelligence. You wonder sometimes how these things ever get made, and why their stars even bother to sign up for such projects.

There are strong performances here and a sense of well-sprung tension, but both are overshadowed by a feeling of weary cliche. ·