Flanked thematically by last year’s Best Picture winner (The Departed) and maybe this year’s (American Gangster), We Own the Night would be small-fry--even if it is just a decent cops-and-the-city drama.
With a charismatic leading lady and her equally captivating toy boy at the helm, Prime is a somewhat enjoyable look at a budding, albeit complicated, romance. But it tends to take itself a tad too seriously.