21 Bridges (2019)

Though this film was better than expected, it was also oddly predictable and redundant.
Two thugs kill seven cops just so they can escape with some cocaine and the head detective (Chadwick Boseman) shuts down the city so they don't escape.
This plot has been done before and with the same twist, which I suspected halfway through the film, that the cops in the 8-5 were in on the whole drug dealing scene with Captain McKenna (J.K. Simmons) at the helm. One of the thugs (Stephan James) starts to piece the whole thing together and once he starts opening his mouth, Narcotics Frankie Bush (Sienna Miller) begs Andre (Boseman) to just shoot him and while Andre is usually trigger happy, he wants the whole story, which he finally gets, turning into a cop killer himself.
So, that's the plot. I feel that it is incredibly overdone, the cops being dirty and I'm sick of plots being reused like this constantly. Only Boseman and James were provided with characters that had multiple layers while everyone else was relatively one-dimensional which is also a shame as this cast had good actors. They deserved a better plot. Grade: B
Side Notes:
-Both Boseman and James have also portrayed sports heroes Jackie Robinson and Jesse Owens respectively.
-You should never run a red light, that's just stupid.
-300 pounds of cocaine is a lot more than 30 pounds of cocaine.
-The internal question of the real third killer of Andre's father is never revealed. I'm not buying that it was that crackhead who didn't remember anything.