We Own the Night
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Movie Reviews of We Own the Night
Movie Review: Cop Movie at its Best!
Summary: 5 Stars
It has Eva Mendes! That should say enough about this movie! Nah, it's really a good movie with tons of suspense and drama. Watch it and see how'd you feel if you had to fill Markey Mark's shoes!Movie Review: They stole a line from Ice Cube
Summary: 3 Stars
We Own the Night is a pretty gritty, riveting crime drama. Not real original, but pretty intense and well acted. The story is well told and fairly realistic. Plus Eva Mendes is hot.
A nightclub owner has drug connections and family in law enforcement. He's forced to pick a side. That's basically the story.
Here's a few minor problems I had with this movie though:
-drug kingpins would probably investigate family background before they ask a guy to help run a crime ring
-Duvall & Wahlberg play roles they've done to death
-a citizen being granted honorary police status and given a gun seems pretty far-fetched
-they stole a line from Ice Cube: "Rather be judged by 12 than carried by 6".
Worth a rental. NOT better than The Departed, as the critic on the back of the box claims. Not really that close either.
Movie Review: It had the potential...
Summary: 4 Stars
I saw this movie in the theaters because of the cast and I thought why not? Boy was I wrong. The movie had such great potential with all the star actors and the plot. It didn't live up to the name and kind of leaves you wondering once the movie is over. It was interesting to watch once but not worth buying.Movie Review: Both sides think they own the night
Summary: 5 Stars
The film is covering well known territory, and it doesn't bring totally new aspects into it. Just a normal "New York cops versus gangsters" flick, imagine a cross of the Departed and Eastern Promises.
We all know that in the 90s, Mr.Giuliani singlehandedly and famously cleaned up NYC (unless it really happened differently, eg via the mechanisms mentioned in Freakonomics). Before his magic touch saved the city, it appears that NY cops were the laughing stock of the streets. Gangsters were in control, it seems.
What we have here, set in 88, is a confrontation between a Russian drug ring and the cops, among whom the father and son team Duvall/Wahlberg is prominent. They have a prodigal son/brother (Phoenix), who happens to work as a night club manager for the Russians and has a Latina girl friend (Mendes). You see right away where this is leading, but then, no, you don't quite. The script succeeds in avoiding overdone predictability. With hindsight, no big surprise happens, but you never quite know how it will unfold.
In other words, if you like the genre, this is a first class product.
Some have given low grades here for the fact that it is not original. True, it isn't very. But I would rather watch a solid movie in a proven and interesting genre than an original bore in a new one.
Movie Review: Great Movie
Summary: 5 Stars
I really love this movie. I would recommend this movie to Joaquin Phoenix or Mark Wahlberg fans. I like both actors very much and to see a movie with both actors was a great pleasure.