The Wire really ruined things for cops-and-robbers cinema
. Back in the '80s, Hollywood could still make a movie like Takers, counting on some audiences to buy into its slick, quasi-operatic take on suave, sexy criminals and the gruff, hard-boiled officers obsessed with bringing them down. Now audiences are savvy enough to realize that extended shootouts on crowded city streets aren't really a typical day of police work.