With great actors like Edward Norton, Collin Farrell and Jon Voight in this cop drama, Pride & Glory could have been a realistic and gritty movie with strong convincing performances. Unfortunately, director Gavin O'Connor overdoes the grittiness and steps into cliched territory.

Edward plays a cop who has been assigned by his police chief father (Jon Voight) to investigate the death of four cops. As he proceeds with his investigation, he finds out the persons responsible for the slaughter could well be his own brother (Noah Emmerich) and brother-in-law (Colin Farrell). Revealing the culprits would spell disaster for his family reputation…

Violent and brutish, most of the actors overplay their macho personas and become swaggering caricatures. There are more scenes of men pushing each other against the wall and making threats than we care to count. Oh, and don't even get us started on the film's excessive and wholly unnecessary use of the 'f**k' word in every possible line of dialogue.

Pride & Glory feels like a bad TV movie and a wasted opportunity, saved only occasionally by Edward's measured performance.