Nothing much changes in the asphalt jungle, that B-movie
precinct of rancid lies and larcenous dreams, where thugs and
politicians collude in the night, shady ladies lick their lips
over endless cocktails, and the average joe has no idea what’s
really going on. You remember the terrain. Allen Hughes’ Broken
City welcomes you back.  The time is now, and the city, as so
often in the past, is New York. The mayor, a glad-handing snake
named Hostetler (Russell Crowe), is campaigning for reelection,
and he’ll do anything to crush his opponent, a young reformer
named Jack Valliant (Barry Pepper). Making victory more iffy
than usual, however, is a festering real-estate scandal in which
Hostetler seems deeply complicit. And then there’s his wife, a
looker named Cathleen (Catherine Zeta-Jones), who he knows has
been cheating on him.  Determined to identify Cathleen’s lover,
Hostetler calls in a disgraced ex-cop named Billy Taggart (Mark
Wahlberg). Seven years earlier, Taggart was bounced off the
force after shooting a