25th Hour (2002)
Average Rating: 7.2/10
Reviews Counted: 164
Fresh: 128 | Rotten: 36
An intelligent and well-acted film despite the usual Spike Lee excesses.
Average Rating: 6.9/10
Critic Reviews: 38
Fresh: 27 | Rotten: 11
An intelligent and well-acted film despite the usual Spike Lee excesses.
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A man has one day to put his life in order before a long stretch in prison in this drama directed by Spike Lee. Monty Brogan (Edward Norton) is a man who came from a working class family in New York. Monty's best friends Jacob (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and Slaughtery (Barry Pepper) went on to distinguished careers as, respectively, a high school teacher and a bonds trader, but Monty took a different path and began dealing drugs. While Monty's trade has made him plenty of money, it hasn't brought
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Misha Kuznetsov
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Isiah Whitlock Jr.
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While 25th Hour has a several arresting characters struggling with credible problems, regrettably Monty isn't one of them.
Top CriticI still think that Mr. Lee has come closer than he ever has before to making the great film about New York City that David Thomson hoped from him in a favorable mini-bio in The New Biographical Dictionary of Film.
Lee and his cast are so adept at getting us acquainted with Monty and these other people that we wind up feeling like we've known them for years.
Pretty lethargic stuff.
It's the usual undisciplined, overextended Spike symphony: more fun than it is any good.
Lee has created that rarity in filmmaking: a movie we need, right now.
Engaging but violent drama. Not for kids.
Finds beauty in the silver linings and embodies the notion that we're stronger than we usually realize we can be.
An under-rated gem, 25th Hour is a powerful story about how the decisions you make in your life, and who you make them with, can ultimately lead to your downfall.
Lee successfully, seamlessly marries his famously inventive visual style with more introspective material.
Lee builds Monty's story of tortured introspection and his final surprising, desperate act before incarceration through boldly candid conversations and flashbacks.
Perhaps Lee's most consistently compelling work since Clockers.
One of the more entertaining and thought-provoking Spike Lee Joints in a long while.
'Spike Lee's love of New York, unlike Woody Allen's, has always been more tough than tender.'
Lee's best, most cohesive and most passionate film since Do the Right Thing.
25th Hour is less about drugs and dealing than it is about poor choices people make and the fine line that separates those headed for prison and those who remain free
25th Hour stands out as a remarkably atmospheric and elegiac American film, every scene heavy with the stillness of tragedy.'
Audience Reviews for 25th Hour
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- Montgomery "Monty" Brogan: Fuck you and this whole city and everyone in it.
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- Montgomery "Monty" Brogan: I need you to make me ugly.
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- Montgomery "Monty" Brogan: Champagne for my real friends, and real pain for my sham friends.
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Foreign Titles
- La 25e heure (FR)
- La Última Noche (ES)
