Don Cheadle: 5 Awesome Performances & 5 That Sucked

5 That Sucked

5. Clarence "Tango" Butler - Brooklyn's Finest (2009)

Despite boasting an incredibly gifted cast and some basically intriguing stories - a cop on the verge of retirement, another bent by corruption and a third pushed too deep into cover and questioning his loyalties - Antoine Fuqua's Brooklyn's Finest far from lives up to its name.

It's dull and insipid at times; derivative and uninspired at others, and it feels like little more than an exercise in exploring cliches.

Cheadle's deep cover cop is an interesting figure, and his relationship with Wesley Snipes' con is similarly promising, the execution is too lacking in imagination and too quick to peel back the layers suggesting every authority is a front for rampant racism and corruption. And worst of all, Cheadle just seems bored and painfully unsuited to the character - like he's just wearing the wrong clothes and acting the part too consciously.

For someone who's supposed to be under cover, that's fatally distracting.