Breach of Faith: A Family of Cops II

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...

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.

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.

Family of Cops 2 is not as good as the first cause it is slow going but the cast is excellent and the story and dialogue are top notch. Viewers be warned though this is a TV movie it contains dark subject matter, violence, vulgar language, and some sexually charged scenes as well as dialogue. I wouldn't recommend this film to most viewers cause the story revolves around children, murder, and religion. I can't stress enough how twisted and dark the story line is in Family of Cops 2 and for that reason it is hard to find an audience that would be able to sit through the entire film without being adjatate and appalled by some of the scenes. The only thing viewers need to take away from Family of Cops 2 is Paul Fein's (Charles Bronson) youngest daughter has joined the police academy. Skip this movie unless you can handle the subject matter.

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.