Wednesday, October 3, 2018

The Review: We Own The Night



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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