Family of Cops II

I had to look it up....he was 76 when this flick was made. Maybe that explains why it never seems to really get going. Even so, Bronson makes it a 7 and worth watching.

The two Family of Cops Canadian co-produced TV films I,ve seen so far are serviceable vehicles for the aging Charles Bronson and both make interesting use of a number of Milwaukee settings,even though in some cases the locations were faked in several nearby Ontario cities.The sequel places an interesting stress on religion,as it involves the murder of a Catholic priest in a Easten European community,,and the main suspicion falling on a group of emigre Russian Jewish thugs.And it turns out, I don,t recall much being said about this in the first entry,that police inspector Bronson,s large family is Jewish.After the crime is finally solved,there is a charming sequence of the family gathered,complete with skullcaps,candles,chicken and challah,for a Shabbas meal.

Right, well I don't think I've ever heard about this 1997 movie titled "Breach of Faith: A Family of Cops II", much less actually watched it. But I had the opportunity to do so, as part of a Charles Bronson movie marathon here in 2024, so of course I sat down to watch it.

I haven't watched the 1995 movie "Family of Cops", so I have no idea how much of a continuation of the first movie this 1997 sequel proved to be. And with no knowledge of the first movie, I had no expectations to "Breach of Faith: A Family of Cops II", nor did I know what I was in for, aside from it being a movie with Charles Bronson in the lead.

So in a sense, I would say that writer Joel Blasberg and director David Greene had every opportunity to entertain me with this 1997 movie. And they actually did so, because the storyline was an entertaining and enjoyable one, and the movie was certainly doing its job as a movie is supposed to; entertain.

The movie has a couple of familiar faces on the cast list, aside from Charles Bronson, with the likes of Angela Featherstone, Sebastian Spence, David Ferry and Joe Penny. I will say that the acting performances in the movie were fairly good.

Sure, "Breach of Faith: A Family of Cops II" is not at the top of Charles Bronson's movies, but it definitely is well-worth sitting down and spending 94 minutes on watching. But it is hardly a movie that warrants more than just a single viewing.

My rating of director David Greene's 1997 movie "Breach of Faith: A Family of Cops II" lands on a five out of ten stars.

In this next to last film for Charles Bronson and the second in the Family Of Cops series, Breach Of Faith shows an old Bronson now playing a grandfather, not unlike John Wayne in his last decade. Face it the man was 76 years old when he did this film. What were people expecting? Clint Eastwood has certainly acknowledged his age in those few times nowadays that he goes in front of the camera.

The Feins are involved with an execution style killing of a priest, someone who was of the Catholic faith went to confession that the big Russian mobster in Milwaukee is afraid the beans will be spilled. Not likely that's about to happen, but it's emphasized that Russians are paranoid and suspicious by nature, none more so than their criminals.

But I refuse to believe they would be going after the police and their families. Even they know that's asking for trouble.

Not a good one for Mr. Bronson.

BREACH OF FAITH, the second in the FAMILY OF COPS trilogy, is a terrible film. The plot is the same old nonsense about the Russian mafia and it exudes a terrible TV movie atmosphere where everything is played safe and there are no surprises around any of the corners.

Even worse, I was watching this for Charles Bronson alone - what other reason is there? - and he's given even less to do than in the first movie. He takes a back seat to the members of his other family, who aren't interesting in the least, and in his few scenes he seems elderly, doddering across the screen, mumbling his barely coherent lines. You feel sorry for him, remembering what once was.

Even a briefly rousing climax can't lift what's come before, and BREACH OF FAITH is utterly without merit. I can't say I'm looking forward to the final part of the trilogy...