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10/07/06
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Four Brothers (2005)
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Reviews Counted:30
Fresh:15
Rotten:15
Average Rating:5.5/10
Consensus: 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.
Theatrical Release:Aug 12, 2005 Wide
Box Office: $74,484,168
Synopsis: When their beloved foster mother is killed in a holdup, four tough brothers reunite in their old Detroit neighborhood with revenge on their minds. Mark Wahlberg plays the brawl-hungry leader,... [More]
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Tyrese Gibson, André Benjamin, Garrett Hedlund
Director: John Singleton
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Reviews for Four Brothers
Top CriticUnremarkably schizophrenic -- half gritty sojourn into the inner-city furnace, half Hollywood brain death.
08/16/05
Top CriticFour Brothers is a violent, macho story with a perfect feel for the dynamics between four tough guys who will do anything for each other.
08/15/05
Top CriticIf 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.
08/12/05
Top CriticLoud, stupid, unrealistic, overdone, without a thought in its ugly little head and kind of enjoyable.
08/12/05
Top CriticThe sometimes absurd Brothers works only on a larger-than-life level. But on that level, the zest is back.
08/12/05
Top CriticMost distressing, however, isn't the movie's high tide of bogus gangsta posturing, but its genuinely idiotic and irresponsible glorification of precisely the attitudes that Boyz n the Hood once depicted as vapid, self-replicating and suicidal.
08/12/05
Top CriticA solidly built, yet forgettable revenge action movie that is notable mostly for its outstanding young cast.
08/12/05
Top CriticWhat holds us are the actors, including Terrence Howard as a cop who grew up with the brothers.
08/12/05
Top CriticEasily the best 1975 B-movie made in 2005, Four Brothers is a raucously entertaining vigilante film.
08/12/05
Top CriticFour Brothers takes some pains to add an emotional overlay to the proceedings, to connect, albeit roughly, with the notion that a character's humanity can be part of the on-screen equation.
08/12/05
Top CriticAs a vivid, bloody piece of escapist gimmickry, it works.
08/12/05
Top CriticAll that's missing from Four Brothers' battery of macho clichés is a speedboat chase, a role for Carl Weathers and a villain with a pet cobra.
08/12/05
Top CriticRidiculously violent, crude, homophobic, brash and often plain absurd.
08/12/05
Top CriticAdd a script that teeters precariously between vengeance, poignancy and comedy, and Four Brothers starts to look like four movies.
08/12/05
Top CriticDespite random bursts of ambition, Four Brothers ultimately feels like a genre movie, only without as much satisfying payoff as we might like.
08/12/05
Top CriticThe fatal flaw of John Singleton's latest and most mainstream offering is an off-the-rails narrative that adds up to one giant 'Huh?'
08/12/05
Top CriticThe main reason this films works so well is that Singleton has assembled an excellent cast to play the brothers.
08/12/05
Top CriticSingleton, whose feature film career got off to a terrific start with Boyz N the Hood (1991), delivers this proficiently made factory job with some snap.
08/12/05
Top CriticBrothers is a faux-low-budget revenge thriller, pure and simple. There's nothing special about it, and that's what's refreshing.
08/12/05
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