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Four Brothers (2005)

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52

Average Rating: 5.7/10
Reviews Counted: 131
Fresh: 68 | Rotten: 63

Despite striking a believable rapport among its principal actors, Four Brothers overwhelms with ultra-violent, vigilante-glorifying action and devolves into too many fractured, insubstantial thematic directions.

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Average Rating: 5.4/10
Critic Reviews: 33
Fresh: 16 | Rotten: 17

Despite striking a believable rapport among its principal actors, Four Brothers overwhelms with ultra-violent, vigilante-glorifying action and devolves into too many fractured, insubstantial thematic directions.

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Four men come together to find out how and why the woman who raised them was killed in this hard-edged urban drama from director John Singleton. Short-tempered Bobby (Mark Wahlberg), struggling musician Jack (Garrett Hedlund), streetwise Angel (Tyrese Gibson), and hard-working Jeremiah (Andre Benjamin) are four guys who don't appear to have much in common, in terms of either race or temperament. However, these men have one very important bond -- all four were adopted and raised by the same woman

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Drama, Action & Adventure

David Elliott, Paul Lovett

Dec 20, 2005

$74.5M

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Unremarkably schizophrenic -- half gritty sojourn into the inner-city furnace, half Hollywood brain death.

August 16, 2005 Full Review Source: Village Voice
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Four Brothers is a violent, macho story with a perfect feel for the dynamics between four tough guys who will do anything for each other.

August 15, 2005 Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper
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As long as the action snaps and the violence feels (somewhat) righteous, there'll always be a place for movies such as Four Brothers -- on rainy Saturdays, on TNT.

August 12, 2005 Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel
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If Four Brothers spent half as much energy making us feel something for its heroes as it spent making us feel nothing for their victims, it would be a far better, and far more engaging, film.

August 12, 2005 Full Review Source: Washington Post
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Loud, stupid, unrealistic, overdone, without a thought in its ugly little head and kind of enjoyable.

August 12, 2005 Full Review Source: Washington Post
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The sometimes absurd Brothers works only on a larger-than-life level. But on that level, the zest is back.

August 12, 2005 Full Review Source: USA Today
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Feels like a nervous student's heavily footnoted thesis film.

November 20, 2011 Full Review Source: Goatdog's Movies

Four Brothers tries to mix the revenge quest with the drama of the four boys finding and learning about each other again. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

March 22, 2011 Full Review Source: ComingSoon.net
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A rowdy, brutal revenge movie -- not for kids.

July 17, 2008 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comments (3)
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...a welcome throwback to the sort of over-the-top actioners that were prevalent twenty years ago.

July 10, 2007 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews
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Adds a uniquely repugnant concept to the notion of dysfunctional, in what seems like a warped underlying fraternal creed of, a family that preys together stays together.

June 1, 2007 Full Review
Long Island Press

Adds a uniquely repugnant concept to the notion of dysfunctional, in what seems like a warped underlying fraternal creed of, a family that preys together stays together.

March 31, 2007 Full Review
Long Island Press

A healty mixture of action, humor and sentiment...one of the most sheerly enjoyable popcorn movies of the summer.

February 21, 2006 Full Review Source: One Guy's Opinion | Comment (1)
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Audience Reviews for Four Brothers

I liked the idea but I'm not sure John Singleton executed it as successfully as he could have. It got a bit silly in places when it could and should have been a little bit more of a 'Who done it' rather than a dumb revenge film. The lead characters where painted as hot-headed hoodlums one minute and then master detectives the next. A little more of the Terrence Howard storyline would have improved things in my opinion, his character opened up the story and then went AWOL until the end. And as beautiful as she is, I'm not sure what the real point of Sofía Vergara's character.
March 20, 2013
SirPant

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This is director John Singleton's modern update of sorts on The Sons of Katie Elder. The titular characters are four guys from different backgrounds (and races) who reunite after years of separation for their mother's funeral. When they can't get any straight answers, they decide to take matters into their own hands.

This is a slick urban drama filled with grit, intensity, and a bit of humor as well. Were it not for their adopted mother, these four guys would have nothing in common, but they do make for an interesting bowl of personality stew. Mark Wahlberg is the short-tempered Bobby, Garrett Hedlund is the struggling punk rocker Jack, Tyrese Gibson plays street-wise Angel, and the only seemingly normal one, the hard working Jeremiah, is portrayed by Andre Benjamin. Fionnula Flanagn is the thread that holds them all together.

Other roles include Terrence Howard as a cop on the case, pre-fame Sofia Vergara as Angel's lady, and Chiwetel Ejiofor as a rather shady hood.

The performances are pretty decent, better than expected for this sort of thing, and everyone mostly seems to mesh pretty well. The pacing and atmosphere are pretty good, the cinematography is well-executed, and the action, when it happens, is great too, a big shootout in particular being a major highlight.

All in all, this is far better than is has a right to be, and that actually makes me happy. This is proof that Singleton didn't lose all of his talent after Boyz n the Hood. Give this one a watch- it's pretty satisfying.
June 9, 2006
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    1. Jack Mercer: [over Evelyn's financial matter's] How much do we get?
    – Submitted by Shavonnaa M (9 months ago)
    1. Evan: He said hurry the fuck up. Then he hung up.
    – Submitted by Nicholas R (9 months ago)
    1. Jack Mercer: [chasing someone down a hallway] Hey kid! No running in the halls!
    – Submitted by Yitian Z (11 months ago)
    1. Victor Sweet: You don't pay a ho to fuck you. You pay her to leave.
    – Submitted by Sanjay C (23 months ago)
    1. Bobby Mercer: What about me, Green? You gonna arrest me too?
    2. Lt. Green: That depends, Bobby. You keeping strait?
    3. Bobby Mercer: Strait-ish.
    – Submitted by Lea L (2 years ago)
    1. Jeremiah Mercer: Evelyn was in this city for a long time. She saw a lot that was terrible, but she stayed hopeful. She still believed that things were getting better, sometimes despite all evidence. And that's a hard thing to do, stay hopeful. Even when you can't find a reason.
    – Submitted by Lea L (2 years ago)

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