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Four Brothers
When their adoptive mother, Evelyn Mercer (played by the elegant Fionnula Flanagan), gets murdered in a grocery store hold up the day before Thanksgiving, the world at their feet seems to crumble away to pave a road back home to Detroit. These four boys she set on their feet were congress men compared to what they could have been, but yet they still managed to turn up the turf over Michigan in every way possible. Hard-headed Bobby (Mark Whalberg) picks up the trail that it wasn’t mere coincidence, and feeds the fire in his fellow home boys Angel (Tyrese Gibson), and Jack (Garrett Hedlund) leaving the fourth, family man Jeremiah (Andre Benjaman), stuck in his own concerns around Evelyn’s death.
After bypassing the Detroit police and their own ‘Officer Friendly’, they go from concerned kids, hit men, house robbers, and detectives to the main suspects of a gang killing along with becoming a brother short. After all there way of doing things was different.
This movie adds a new meaning to the term family, and the R rating only adds more fuel to the fire. The cat was nicely picked, everyone settling easily into the role and creating that extra umph to the screen. I think with all this considered it deserved more than a flimsy three stars, but I’ll leave that up for you to decide.
I’d recommend you pick this up if you enjoy an action packed film with a rather high violence level that still sits on realistic terms to keep you from rolling your eyes and discarding it into storage. The characters personalities are realistic as well, and it might get a little hard not to get semi-attached to the recurring cast members (for me it was Jack.) All in all it’s an awesome movie I’d recommend to the older crowd.
So why don’t you go out and rent Four Brothers today?
When their adoptive mother, Evelyn Mercer (played by the elegant Fionnula Flanagan), gets murdered in a grocery store hold up the day before Thanksgiving, the world at their feet seems to crumble away to pave a road back home to Detroit. These four boys she set on their feet were congress men compared to what they could have been, but yet they still managed to turn up the turf over Michigan in every way possible. Hard-headed Bobby (Mark Whalberg) picks up the trail that it wasn’t mere coincidence, and feeds the fire in his fellow home boys Angel (Tyrese Gibson), and Jack (Garrett Hedlund) leaving the fourth, family man Jeremiah (Andre Benjaman), stuck in his own concerns around Evelyn’s death.
After bypassing the Detroit police and their own ‘Officer Friendly’, they go from concerned kids, hit men, house robbers, and detectives to the main suspects of a gang killing along with becoming a brother short. After all there way of doing things was different.
This movie adds a new meaning to the term family, and the R rating only adds more fuel to the fire. The cat was nicely picked, everyone settling easily into the role and creating that extra umph to the screen. I think with all this considered it deserved more than a flimsy three stars, but I’ll leave that up for you to decide.
I’d recommend you pick this up if you enjoy an action packed film with a rather high violence level that still sits on realistic terms to keep you from rolling your eyes and discarding it into storage. The characters personalities are realistic as well, and it might get a little hard not to get semi-attached to the recurring cast members (for me it was Jack.) All in all it’s an awesome movie I’d recommend to the older crowd.
So why don’t you go out and rent Four Brothers today?
