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.
Average Rating: 5.4/10
Critic Reviews: 31
Fresh: 15 | Rotten: 16
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
Aug 12, 2005 Wide
Dec 20, 2005
$74.5M
Paramount Pictures
All Critics (144) | Top Critics (33) | Fresh (69) | Rotten (66) | DVD (23)
Unremarkably schizophrenic -- half gritty sojourn into the inner-city furnace, half Hollywood brain death.
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.
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.
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.
Loud, stupid, unrealistic, overdone, without a thought in its ugly little head and kind of enjoyable.
The sometimes absurd Brothers works only on a larger-than-life level. But on that level, the zest is back.
Feels like a nervous student's heavily footnoted thesis film.
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.
A rowdy, brutal revenge movie -- not for kids.
...a welcome throwback to the sort of over-the-top actioners that were prevalent twenty years ago.
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.
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.
A healty mixture of action, humor and sentiment...one of the most sheerly enjoyable popcorn movies of the summer.
I felt that Four Brothers was nothing new in terms of a good action revenge film. The story itself has already been told a dozen times before, and this film is pure clichés in that respect. What's really a downer with this film is that the film starts off with a bang, but then it treads similar territory as most
August 30, 2011
Super Reviewer
4 brothers doing whatever it takes to have eachother's backs. It's okay, asi asi.
August 1, 2011Super Reviewer
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