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.
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11/07/08
Pride and Glory (2008)
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Reviews Counted:151
Fresh:51
Rotten:100
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
A detonation of flatulent, macho-sentimental gibberish is what this ugly and violent film positively farts out of the screen at you.
11/07/08
But once the two of them fall to fisticuffs, the movie has revealed itself as a lumpy and generic business.
11/07/08
But, hackneyed, unconvincing and ultimately preposterous, Pride and Glory should be made to hand in its badge.
11/07/08
It doesn’t quite pack the wallop that O’Connor intended, a daft fight near the end may evoke laughs and it probably won’t be storming the Academy, but don’t be shocked if you enjoy this as much as Marty’s Oscar victor.
11/07/08
Here's an excruciatingly dated and derivative New York cop movie.
11/07/08
After similar but much better fare such as Martin Scorsese’s The Departed and The Wire TV series, we’ve come to expect an awful lot from our bent copper dramas and, while satisfactory, Pride And Glory just isn’t in the same league.
11/07/08
When Noah Emmerich, who plays Tierney’s NYPD brother, said “this s*** ends now”, the Sneak thought “glory be” – only for the story to drag on for another 20 minutes.
11/07/08
Pride and Glory is NYPD cop hokum, overcooked and undercharacterised. The time is out of joint, but in films such as this another joint is always to hand: ham.
11/07/08
This bad-apple cop drama is the kind of movie that Sidney Lumet used to make in the Seventies and Eighties, and it hasn't evolved a great deal since.
11/07/08
However skilful Gavin O’Connor is as a film-maker — and there are some striking sequences here — we’ve seen this corrupt cop thriller a hundred times before.
11/07/08
Watchable cop thriller with strong performances and suitably gritty direction, but the climax gets bogged down in some embarrassingly awful cliches.
11/07/08
If cop movie cliches are a crime against cinema, Pride and Glory should be under arrest.
11/06/08
Christmas is definitely cancelled in this over-acted, over-here movie. Presumably the tinsel was CGI'd in to complement the season of its release.
11/06/08
passionate performances in a story that is a series of letter-perfect clichés
11/02/08
Loud...
11/02/08
A dramatic, tense story of mixed loyalties in an NYPD family with standout performances by Norton, Farrell, Voight, Emmerich, and Ehle.
11/02/08
...a good film that could have been great.
11/01/08
A well-crafted and sharply plotted version of the genre.
10/31/08
Relentlessly grim, appropriately abrasive and beautifully filmed, "Pride and Glory" recalls Sidney Lumet's heyday. It proves there's still meat left on the bones of bad-cop thrillers, but it wisely doesn't offer a Handi-Wipe after its final course.
10/31/08
Latest 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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