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Four
Brothers
(4
popcorn buckets out of 5)
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Release
Date: December 20, 2005
Rated: 
(Not for sale to persons under age 18.)
Starring: Mark
Wahlberg
(Bobby Mercer), Tyrese
Gibson
(Angel Mercer), André Benjamin (Jeremiah Mercer),
Garrett Hedlund (Jack Mercer),
Terrence Howard (Lt. Green)
Directors: John Singleton
Studio: Paramount Home Video
Run Time: 109 min |
Plot Outline
Four
Brothers
look to avenge their mother's death. |
Plot Synopsis
After
their adoptive mother is murdered during a grocery
store hold-up, the Mercer brothers--hotheaded
Bobby, hard-edged Angel, family man and businessman
Jeremiah, and hard rocking Jack--reunite to
take the matter of her death into their own
hands. As they track down the killer, they quickly
realize that their old ways of doing business
have new consequences. Its not as predictable
as you might think. |
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Editorial Review
Bound
by love for their slain adoptive mother, the
brothers in Four
Brothers form 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 homage to the
Blaxpoitation films of the '70s (as he did with
his remake of Shaft),
it walks a fine line of credibility with a mythic
vengeance plot (recalling John Wayne's 1965
hit The
Sons of Katie Elder) that endorses violence
as the last resort of a family under siege.
When a saintly foster mother (Fionnula
Flanagan)
is gunned down in a convenience store, her only
adopted sons (two white, two black, played respectively
by Mark
Wahlberg,
Garrett
Hedlund,
Tyrese
Gibson,
and André
Benjamin)
go after the killers, only to discover that
their mother's death was not a random event.
As
they uncover a sticky web of criminal activity
involving a local kingpin (Chiwitel Ejiofor),
the character-driven plot races toward an inevitable
showdown, with ex-con Wahlberg leading the way.
Making
excellent use of blue collar locations in Detroit,
Singleton keeps the action moving fast enough
that the film's lack of realism is easily ignored,
and the well-drawn characters (including Terrence
Howard
as a tenacious detective) lend emotional dimension
to an otherwise familiar revenge scenario. Four
Brothers is manipulative, but it's filled with
grace notes of rugged working-class humanity,
and it definitely holds your attention.
Editorial Review by Jeff Shannon
at Amazon.com |
Four
Brothes Movie Trivia & Goofs
Trivia
- The
TV show in the background in the bowling alley
is Pimp My Ride.
- Larenz
Tate turned down the role of Jeremiah.
-
Sofía Vergara's character was originally
written for an Asian girl.
- A
scene with a frozen lake was shown in the
movie and this was Lake Simcoe, north of Toronto.
The ice on the lake freezes to a thickness
of eighteen inches and this body of water
is 28 miles wide.
- makes
a cameo, appearing as the goalie during the
hockey scene on Thanksgiving.
Goofs
- The
chain saw on the block of ice switches ice
blocks more than once.
- During
the car chase, Jack's hair is spiked/flat/spiked
between shots.
-
At Johnny's bar, Jerry's hand is alternately
on the table/off of the table holding a glass.
-
When Jerry is slamming his silver SUV into
the hit team's van, the cars are colliding
head first. However, when he entered the car,
it wasn't backed into the driveway, but the
other way around.
Fun
facts from IMDb.com.
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