How excited James Brown would have been for
“21 Bridges.” Take you to bridge? How about 21
of them?
But I suspect even the Godfather of Soul would
give an easy pass to Brian Kirk’s “21 Bridges,”
with Chadwick Boseman (who played Brown in
the biopic “Get on Up”). It’s a just-good-enough
New York crime thriller, made with sufficient
slinky shadows and leading-man charisma to do
the trick. Even if its best trick is informing you,
in case you ever wondered, how many bridges
there are crossing into Manhattan.
The filmmakers, themselves, very nearly got
it wrong. The movie’s original title was “17
Bridges.” Accounting errors are one thing, but
misplacing the Queensboro Bridge plus three
more doesn’t exactly engender confidence in
the entire enterprise.