As cop/crime dramas go, this one offers little that's new but it takes the time to develop the characters and that's where its strengths lie.
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10/11/07
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We Own The Night (2007)
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Reviews Counted:137
Fresh:75
Rotten:62
Average Rating:5.8/10
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 CriticThe story remains oddly unaffecting, and Gray's camera sense is visually lethargic outside the two big action sequences.
10/11/07
Top CriticAs always, Phoenix is an arresting presence on screen, but don't expect any Departed-esque fast talk from Wahlberg, who is oddly inert in a role that should crackle with brotherly ambivalence.
10/11/07
The movie would seem ripe for TNT, but action this unexciting can't even compete with Law and Order.
10/11/07
Acting is strong (I like these stars), the direction passionate, but the film is bleak and laborious with unbelievable and-or undeveloped progressions in the telling.
10/11/07
We've been down this road before, but somehow the scenery looks new.
10/11/07
...isn't interesting until it's almost over.
10/11/07
A competent, quasi-profound but ultimately shopworn tale of familial loyalty, directed with television-drama flatness.
10/11/07
At Cannes Film Fest, this melodrama about fathers and sons, cops and criminals in the Russian milieu, was dismissed as overly familiar, a genre flick done many times before on TV and the big screen, including James Gray himself--and with the same actors.
10/10/07
We Own The Night brims with raw feelings and elegant filmmaking.
10/10/07
Gray is a far better director than he is a writer. He's got the talent to make great movies. He just needs to stop trying to.
10/10/07
Top CriticFalters under the strain of clumsy plot turns, banal dialogue and cliched characters.
10/10/07
An old school character-driven police drama that comes from the heart of a filmmaker who's clearly in complete sync with his cast and crew.
10/10/07
Leave the gun. Take the blini.
10/10/07
Helpless with comedy, heavily reliant on coincidence, and out of step with all current cinematic vogue, We Own the Night finally resonates as a beautiful, dolorous nocturne.
10/09/07
Like The Yards, We Own the Night is broody to the point of anesthesia and operatic to the verge of bombast. And like its predecessor, the new film takes itself far too seriously.
10/09/07
Top CriticWe Own the Night plays like gangbusters.
10/08/07
Top CriticWe Own the Night is defiantly, refreshingly unhip.
10/03/07
Top CriticIf anything makes We Own the Night worth watching, it's Phoenix and Wahlberg.
06/02/07
It’s a solid, if unremarkable piece of storytelling.
06/02/07
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