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« Une fois qu'on accepte son intrigue sans queue ni tête, Broken City est un film divertissant qui sait trouver un équilibre entre ses touches d'humours et ses moments plus sombres. »

« Certains revirements surprennent, mais la mécanique à vue et la tension mal soutenue desservent le sujet d'une brûlante actualité: la corruption de l'appareil politique. »

« Si Broken City ne réinvente pas le genre et n'a pas la profondeur ni l'efficacité d'un film comme The French Connection, l'oeuvre a le mérite d'aborder des thèmes actuels avec finesse et intelligence, et de ne trop tomber dans le manichéisme. »

« In the end, a film is only measured by how enjoyable it actually is to watch, and on that count Broken City is closer to failure than it is to mediocrity. »

« As much of a problem I had with the storytelling aspect of Broken City, it certainly is a nice looking film. Hughes has a way of creating some incredibly interesting shots which is evident from the very first scene. »

« Hughes' direction is haphazard; some scenes seem perfunctory - even useless - others never find their dramatic centers, a few are all right. »

« Another January dud. Broken City drops hot-shot actors in a quicksand of clichés and watches them sink. »

« For just about all of its 109 minutes, it is readily apparent a whole lot of things have gone wrong with Broken City, and they started long before a frame of footage was shot. »

« Everyone involved here has made and will make vastly better films. Time to deposit that paycheque and move on. »