You reap what you sow and old saying goes and which could be said about The Dark Knight. After bringing us a gritty, down-to-earth, origin story about Batman this movie continues on the path its predecessor started exploring. Something quite unique in the Batman universe as this is actually the first movie that really connects with the movie it follows. Not only in terms of the central plot, but also in recurring characters. For the first time a villain from a previous movie appears again as does the love-interest. The 90's Batman movies felt more or less like standalone movies, while The Dark Knight is really a next chapter to Batman Begins.

How much is the life of one man worth when millions are at stake? On paper pretty much, but in reality it's pretty worthless. The show 24 has shown us that over the years that to get results and save lives you have to torture people despite Geneva conventions. Audiences never publicly disagreed with Jack Bauer's method of getting results because all the guys he tortured were bad guys and the torturing would lead him to saving many innocent lives. But approving torture is a slippery slope but it's always an interesting discussion; how do you treat someone who would kill you and countless other in a blink of an eye?

Three relatively unconnected stories about cops in Brooklyn, each with their own demons or other problems. Cops in movies are rarely carefree, then again nobody is actually carefree in a movie, only sometimes when the end credits roll. An unwritten rule of movies with multiple story-lines is that the characters at least once appear in each other's story, just to show a connection and to show that they inhabit the same world. In Brooklyn's Finest everybody ends up in the same building eventually though they never end up in each other's story.

The story of a has-been country star who tries to find redemption in a doomed relationship with a much younger woman is one that has certain parallels with The Wrestler which starred Mickey Rourke. And like that movie it is carried by the performance of its star, in this case Jeff bridges as Bad Blake giving an Academy Award winning performance. But there is more and even people who are not into country music, of which there is a lot of featured here, will find the alcoholic Bad Blake's journey to hitting rock bottom interesting.