We Own
The Night 7/10
I
finally finished watching We Own The Night which I started months
ago. I began on my Kindle but there are some things that you just can
not enjoy the same on those things. This is a movie that I had heard
of but did not know who was in it or what it was about. This is a
good, solid movie that I am surprised that not that many people have
ever mentioned this. It stars Mark Wahlberg, Joaquin Phoenix, Eva
Mendes, and Robert Duvall. Seriously. With that cast how have I not
seen this movie before now? It takes place in Brooklyn, New York in
1988. Phoenix is Bobby Green. He is running a super popular night
club, doing all the drugs, having all the Mendes sex, and generally
enjoying his life. Meanwhile his brother Joseph played by Wahlberg is
a super cop. He raids the club one night and Bobby is all about not
cooperating. He fights back and is arrested. By the way, no one knows
they are related.
Their
father played by Duvall is tired of Bobby's shit. They are a
respectable family and he needs to clean up his act and get his life
together. The next night Joseph is shot in front of his house by a
masked dude and almost dies. This bad guy that is trying to get his
drugs moving through Bobby's club lets him know that the chief is
next not knowing about Bobby's relation to them. Bobby doesn't like
his family but he doesn't want them to get murder death killed so he
decides to now help the police and go undercover. He is found out of
course and ends up almost being killed and only survives after
jumping out a window and landing on a fence turning his body into the
shape of the letter U.
This
was an entertaining movie with good acting and a nice look. The night
scenes didn't look muddled. The car chase in it was intense. The
acting was on point but during certain parts it seemed like the cast
was clicking way more than others. I didn't give this a higher rating
because it was way longer than it needed to be and I would have liked
more build up to the reveal of the brothers being on opposite sides
of the law and less of the drug dealer stuff that was not that
interesting but super detailed. I watched this on Netflix.
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