The latest Edward Norton, Colin Farrell and Jon Voight all-together film, "Pride and Glory,” opened Friday.

"Pride and Glory," how does that sound? Beginning with its title, this movie is impossible not to drag you into the “been there done that” old fashioned drama. The only thing is that you should expect a good-cop/bad-cop action film, not a passionate love story. Director Gavin O'Connor succeeded in accomplishing every step of his list of police film clichés, and came up with a cheap male melodrama spiced up with serious action.

When four police are ambushed and killed in what appears to be an attempted drug bust, the chief of detectives (Jon Voight) persuades his son Ray (Ed Norton) to lead a task-force investigation. As he pursues the lead suspect, we see Ray’s brother-in-law Jimmy (Colin Farrell) and his fellow cops destroying evidence and trying, unofficially, to get to the suspect first. So it is pretty clear that the moral dilemmas play a key role in this film. The cops in “Pride and Glory” are real, and except for the violent gunplay and occasional drug use their lives are somewhat credible.

Farrell has played cops and robbers before, in "Miami Vice" and "SWAT." But the "generic boot camp" where actors learned how to fire a sidearm wasn't enough. So the actors were assigned to beats of their own - Norton with homicide detectives, Farrell with vice cops - to get a feel for the emotional toll of the job. So it wasn’t a piece of cake, after all.

But it’s all about Norton’s performance in the end. Soft-spoken and melancholic, Norton’s character brings a bit of determination to the film while Farrell gives it a bit of distinguishing personality.

Despite its being so very familiar, "Pride and Glory" can be original from time to time.