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Four Brothers (Special Collector's Edition) (2005)

4 Ratings: 1.8
A movie directed by John Singleton

Bound by love for their slain adoptive mother, the brothers inFour Brothersform a unique quartet that gives John Singleton's film a razor's edge of redemption. It's a thin edge, to be sure, because while Singleton's urban Western pays … see full wiki

Director: John Singleton
Genre: Action
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review by . September 10, 2012
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He's not heavy, he's my brother.
A woman is in a convenient store apparently at the wrong moment. Two men rob the store, then kill the employee and then her.      She is the mother of four adopted sons. When no one else wanted these boys, she took them in and gave them love and lessons on life. Two of her sons are black and two are white.      The action takes place in Detroit, Michigan and we see Mark Wahlberg and his brothers at their mother's funeral. Terrence Howard plays the police …
Quick Tip by . September 10, 2012
posted in Movie Hype
If possible, listen with surround sound, the music and special effects are outstanding.
review by . February 25, 2006
I wasn't expecting much on this movie, I mean it does have Marky Mark in it and I'd hate to think he's be the start of the movie. But I was hoping for it to be exciting, emotional, and engaging... And surprisingly it was.    Mark Walbergh, Garrett Hedlund, Andre 3000, and Tyrese Gibson play the four brothers very well as delinquent,....... but there were many simple one-liners and Mark Wahlberg seems to play the same character way too often. Not really acting so much as reading …
review by . January 03, 2006
posted in Movie Hype
This movie was about as painful to watch as the revenge exacted by the brothers in this movie on the killers of their "mother."    An old woman is gunned down during a robbery and it turns out she was a type of social worker that had taken in four troubled youths and raised them as her sons. The sons vow to find and kill the ones who did this. They later find out that it was not a simple robbery but that that their mother was followed and executed.    The …
review by . December 27, 2005
John Singleton has a gift for depicting the gritty side of life and making it credible: there are reasons for heads-up defensive action in neighborhoods where perpetrators and victims live side by side in a world teetering on imbalance.    FOUR BROTHERS is a finely tuned, taut little film that demonstrates the influence of a caring adult on kids with little future can impact lives. Evelyn Mercer (a terrific Fionnula Flanagan) is a single woman who adopted four orphans as children …
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