I have a soft-spot for hard-boiled cop thrillers; State of Grace, Black Rain, Dark Blue, Narc … even The Departed to an extent. While director Jame’s gray’s last film ‘The Yards’ didn’t blow me away (too much courtroom… not enough of anything else) I did like his first film ‘Little Odessa’ with Tim Roth. I’m interested to see how his new film will fare as it seems like a pretty decent thriller.

He’s got a got a solid-ish cast of Mark Wahlberg, Joaquin Phoenx, Robert Duvall and Eva Mendes and a pretty interesting sounding plot:

New York, 1988: A new breed of narcotics has swept the great city, bringing with it a ferocious crime wave more terrifying than any in recent memory. Outmanned and outgunned by the new criminal order, the police find themselves burying one of their own at the rate of two a month. An all-out war rages, threatening to engulf guilty and innocent alike. Bobby Green (Joaquin Phoenix) is caught in the crossfire. Manager of a Russian nightclub in Brighton Beach frequented by gangsters like Vadim Nezhinski (Alex Veadov), Bobby keeps his distance, not wanting to get involved. Despite his hedonistic, amoral lifestyle, he is committed to his girlfriend Amada (Eva Mendes) and has ambitions to open his own club and expand out of Brooklyn.
Bobby has a secret, however, which he guards closely. His brother is Police Lieutenant Joseph Grusinsky (Mark Wahlberg), who has followed in the footsteps of their father, legendary Deputy Chief Burt Grusinsky (Robert Duvall). Bobby’s already strained relationship with his father and brother is tested when Burt warns his son that this is a war, and he’s going to have to choose a side.

Check out the trailer on the french site here (via filmstalker)