We Own the Night Reviews

The story remains oddly unaffecting, and Gray's camera sense is visually lethargic outside the two big action sequences.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

This is a man's movie: gritty, macho, and lacking in grace.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Gray assumes rather than dramatizes the depths of his characters, scanning for gravitas where there are only rickety clichés

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James Gray again tackles his familiar family themes again within an overly familiar cops-gangsters genre.

[With so many] plot twists and turns, it's almost like a bad parody of a Western.

We Own the Night declaws the organized crime genre.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

It couldn't have taken seven years to write a screenplay this leaden and uninspired. Surely something like this could be churned out in a weekend.

Full Review | Original Score: C

Gray really does offer nothing new here. We get the same old statement of blood being thicker than watered-down business associations.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

(We Own the Night) was terribly written and just such a waste of great actors.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Adequately acted and flecked with the required quota of action to satisfy genre fans, pic recalls numerous good police dramas of the 1970s, but mostly in superficial ways that bring nothing new to the table.

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Eva Mendes seems to basically be around just to work hard feeding her man Joaquin's erotic fantasies for some relaxation on his down time, in this grim, meandering excursion through Brooklyn's mean streets.

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Too 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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

File this cop family drama movie under films-we-never-need-to-see-again.

Full Review | Original Score: C

Tawdry, pulpy, nuts-and-bolts cop thriller.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

It's not that it's done poorly -- though this kind of movie has definitely been done better -- but rather that there is nothing here that you haven't seen before. And when we say nothing, we mean nothing. At all.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

Highly derivative of 1970s films. Sometimes 'good enough' just isn't good enough.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

A sluggishly regurgitation of the noteworthy 70's-style cop dramas. The nocturnal naughtiness behind Gray's mean streets saga begs for a compelling ounce of creative daylight

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

Offers little that Scorsese doesn't offer with more élan and wit.

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Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

It somehow manages to squander an impressive roster of A-list actors on material so uninteresting and formulaic that you've seen the whole story in the trailers.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

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