The crew hits every demographic for today's all - embracive audience: the workaholic team leader (Josh Brolin), the wisecracking heartthrob (Ryan Gosling), the experienced old - timer (Robert Patrick), the soft - spoken Latino (Michael Pena), the switchblade - wielding black
cop (Anthony Mackie) and the morally torn egghead (Giovanni Ribisi) who absurdly asks how they're any
better than the mobsters they're fighting (I'm not sure how bugging Cohen's living room remotely
compares to Cohen having rivals physically torn in half by two cars, but maybe that's just me).