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We Own The Night (2007)
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Reviews Counted:29
Fresh:16
Rotten:13
Average Rating:5.7/10
Consensus: Bland characters, clichéd dialogue and rickety plotting ensure We Own The Night never lives up to its potential.
Theatrical Release:Oct 12, 2007 Wide
Box Office: $28,563,179
Synopsis: Director James Gray (THE YARDS) posits two distinctly different brothers--Joseph (Mark Wahlberg) and Bobby Grusinsky (Joaquin Phoenix)--as the central characters in this crime-infested thriller.... [More]
Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Wahlberg, Eva Mendes, Robert Duvall
Director: James Gray
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Reviews for We Own The Night
Top CriticThis one hangs on the notion of fate, and once you've figured out whose fate is the central issue, the outcome -- even with those clumsy plot twists -- is fairly predictable.
10/20/07
Top CriticAs flat-footed as writer-director James Gray's script often sounds, his cops-vs.-mob tale can be strangely mesmerizing.
10/20/07
Top CriticTime will tell, but from where I'm sitting this deceptively routine cop movie runs deep. In fact, it already looks like a classic. Cagney and Tracy would be proud.
10/20/07
Top Critic[With so many] plot twists and turns, it’s almost like a bad parody of a Western.
10/15/07
Top CriticHighly derivative of 1970s films. Sometimes 'good enough' just isn't good enough.
10/12/07
Top CriticA robust, respectable cop movie.
10/12/07
Top CriticYou don't judge artists by where they find their inspiration; you judge them by how they realize it. And in We Own the Night James Gray hits the bull's-eye.
10/12/07
Top CriticToo slow to be a guilty pleasure and too dumb to be an innocent one, We Own the Night doesn't say a lot except We Own a Lot of Scorsese DVDs.
10/12/07
Top CriticGray's skill with meting out suspense pays considerable dividends.
10/12/07
Top CriticGray's craftsmanship is admirable, which shows some old-fashioned reverence for the triangulated composition of Scene, Character, Plot and avoids, by and large, the snazzy edits and visual bling that pass for a cinematic imagination these days.
10/12/07
Top CriticGod knows [writer-director Gray] has skill and integrity, but perhaps it's time to acknowledge that he could use script help.
10/12/07
Top CriticWahlberg, unfortunately, is over the top, and not in the good way he was in Scorsese's The Departed.
10/12/07
Top CriticThis is an atmospheric, intense film, well acted, and when it's working it has a real urgency.
10/12/07
Top CriticJoaquin Phoenix and Mark Wahlberg do a lot of the talking, great mumbling. Two of the movies' master mutterers, they supply a double tour-de-force of indifference to enunciation, steamrolling the English language until it sounds like some other dialect.
10/12/07
Top CriticWe Own the Night is a bloody, passionate melodrama, self-consciously Shakespearean -- or Biblical, or Greek, take your pick of atavisms -- in its intentions.
10/12/07
Top CriticThe theme of this absorbing crime drama centers on a simple idea: Blood is thicker than powder.
10/11/07
Top CriticAt times solid and suspenseful, at times dopily implausible and woefully familiar.
10/11/07
Top CriticOne of Hollywood's moldy oldies -- brothers on opposite sides of the law -- gets yet another spin in this lead-footed crime drama by James Gray.
10/11/07
Top CriticPhoenix is unquestionably the star of the film. His journey is particularly angst-ridden, and he shows it every step of the way.
10/11/07
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