Starring Colin Farrell and Edward Norton as Jimmy Egan and Ray Tierney, respectively, two New York Police Department cops who are also brothers-in-law (the parents of the person who came up with this word play for the movie must be very proud), “Pride and Glory” fails to live up to its cast fame on all accounts.

The plot is the typical story of good cop meets bad cop, with Tierney coming across a corruption scandal in which Egan had been involved, while investigating another case (well, how else?).

And then, all hell breaks loose, the discovery threatening to shatter the entire NYPD, since Egan’s betrayal appears to have “infected” other fellow officers, as well.

When four cops get killed in an attempted drug bust, Edward Norton’s character is assigned to the case, only to find out that his brother-in-law is a disgrace to the New York police force, as he actually plays for both teams, being also a paid assassin and a drug dealer.

So the usual string of chases begins, sprinkled with violent scenes and all else any director adds to the mix of a cop movie in order to keep the audience in their seats until the end of the movie, in a failed attempt to give cliches a makeover that would render them to seem new and shiny.

Nevertheless, „Pride and Glory’s” director Gavin O’Connor, who also wrote the screenplay alongside Joe Carnahan, didn’t manage to pull this one off, since the body of the old story centering on good versus evil unfortunately decayed and slowly fell through the cracks in O’Connor’s less than original vision.

“Pride and Glory” is just another cop movie. And apparently, a pretty bad one, as reviews so far have labeled it.