Pride and Glory (2008)
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Reviews Counted:150
Fresh:51
Rotten:99
Average Rating:5.1/10
Consensus: Formulaic in its plotting and cliched in its dialogue, Pride and Glory does little to distinguish itself from other police procedurals.
Theatrical Release:Oct 24, 2008 Wide
Box Office: $15,709,385
Synopsis: The son of a New York City police officer, Gavin O'Connor serves as director and co-screenwriter of this tale of family, loyalty, and corruption. The NYPD runs in the Tierney family's blood.... [More]
Starring: Edward Norton, Colin Farrell, Jon Voight, Noah Emmerich
Director: Gavin O'Connor
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Reviews for Pride and Glory
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 2.5/4 |
Pride and Glory doesn't add anything to the generic crooked-cop procedural that we haven't seen with more verve in better movies. Full Review |
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 3/5 |
This predictable police corruption story with an A-list cast explores themes of family and honesty as two cop brothers uncover the dirt on their brother-in-law's violent activity, while senior cop Dad tries to keep things under control. Full Review |
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3/5 |
Uma pena que o filme jamais consiga escapar realmente do lugar comum, implodindo de vez em seu terrível terceiro ato. Full Review |
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1.5/5 |
Hard to watch, hard to listen to and hard to follow. Full Review |
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2/5 |
The actors in Pride and Glory do their best with this cliched material, but the film is so grim, ugly and miserable that it's difficult to sympathise with even the most positive characters. Full Review |
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I thought this film was a mess. Full Review |
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As a drama, Pride and Glory is too glum, and worse, it doesn't convince. Full Review |
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3/5 |
Director and co-writer Gavin O'Connor is the son of a former New York policeman, and displays a strong grasp of the familial and fraternal ties that bind his characters together. Full Review |
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3/5 |
While its kinetic appeal does have a numbing - if temporary effect - on your critical faculties, television has been much more successful in claiming this territory as its own. Full Review |
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2/4 |
Relentlessly dour, filled with unsympathetic characters, and made out of cardboard melodrama. It's the last of those sins that is unforgivable. [Blu-ray] Full Review |
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It's predictable, it's also escapist entertainment. Full Review |
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5/10 |
...only skims the surface of its characters and offers nothing new in the way of corrupt law enforcement. Full Review |
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3/4 |
Elevated by superb performances, led by Edward Norton and a very chilling Colin Farrell. Full Review |
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2/4 |
What's especially lamentable is that this movie strands yet another exemplary turn by Edward Norton, who once again is superior to the material surrounding him. Full Review |
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What it lacks in subtlety and intelligence it makes up in violence, brutishness, and hackneyed story lines. These are qualities best enjoyed at home. Full Review |
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2/5 |
Pride and Glory is a bleak, boring and hopelessly familiar corrupt cop story that simply does not work despite the determined, top-of-their-game efforts of O'Connor and Norton, not to mention Colin Farrell, Jon Voight and others. Full Review |
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3/5 |
A well-acted and tightly structured piece that would be more impactful if there weren’t a feeling that we’ve seen it before. Full Review |
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2/6 |
Bloody, violent and increasingly derivative, ‘Pride and Glory’ betrays its initial promise as a small-scale, ‘Godfather’-esque social tapestry with crude plotting, variable acting and an all-too-guessable storyline and conclusion. Full Review |
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2.5/5 |
Solid yet unremarkable, Pride And Glory will never win points for originality. With committed turns from Norton and Farrell, it does enough - just - to keep you interested. But this is one film that neither covers itself in pride or glory. Full Review |
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the decision to film Farrell and Norton climactically duking it out in a bar called Irish Eyes with diddle-di-deedle-di music playing on the jukebox is almost unforgiveable. Full Review |
CommentLatest News for Pride and Glory
January 17, 2009:
Pride And Glory is anything but. And though rife with brutality and cynicism way too over the top to make sense of it all, the journey there stings with a raw and devastating emotional power. Abu Graib in Washington Heights meets Godfather in blue. 
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January 17, 2009:
Pride And Glory is anything but. And though rife with brutality and cynicism way too over the top to make sense of it all, the journey there stings with a raw and devastating emotional power. Abu Graib in Washington Heights meets Godfather in blue.
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November 07, 2008:
UK Critics Consensus: Was W. Wicked? Is Pride & Glory Proud and Glorious?
This week in the UK cinemas we have Oliver Stones latest presidential dissection, the George W. Bush biopic W. with Josh Brolin in the title role. Also out is Pride & Glory, a... More...
October 27, 2008:
Honest cop tested by Blue Wall of Silence in gritty NYC crime saga.
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