We Own The Night (Blu-ray) R
Two brothers on opposite sides of the law. Beyond their differences lies loyalty.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 57 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 12, 2008
- Originally Released: 2007
- Label: Sony Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Mark Wahlberg & Joaquin Phoenix | |
Performer: | Eva Mendes & Robert Duvall | |
Directed by | James Gray | |
Screenwriting by | James Gray | |
Composition by | Wojciech Kilar | |
Produced by | Mark Wahlberg, Joaquin Phoenix, Nick Wechsler & Marc Butan | |
Director of Photography: | Joaquin Baca-Asay |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2.5/4 --
This is a man's movie: gritty, macho, and lacking in grace.
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Boston Phoenix
Rating: 3/5 --
[Gray's] feel for dialogue has rarely failed him, and it doesn't here.
Time Out
Rating: B- --
Director-writer James Gray makes it all seem more urgent than it has any right to feel, because he knows how to make tense, violent dramas that are soaking in mood.
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Movies.com
Rating: 3/5 --
The drama gains momentum in the second half, so the film gets better, but it's never too far from cliche.
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Sydney Morning Herald
3 stars out of 5 -- WE OWN THE NIGHT emerges as a solid, professional job with a keenly observed sense of time and place...
Total Film
Rating: 64/100 --
If We Own the Night is flawed and somewhat choppy, it served notice that Gray, once he refined his technique, would be a force to be reckoned with in the cinema world.
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Film and Felt
This is complex stuff, and Gray gives it a sense of gravity that comes through not only in the acting-with Phoenix's increasingly heavy-souled performance anchoring things in nearly every shot-but also the filmmaking.
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The Ringer
Product Description:
Director James Gray (THE YARDS) posits two distinctly different brothers--Joseph (Mark Wahlberg) and Bobby Grusinsky (Joaquin Phoenix)--as the central characters in this crime-infested thriller. Joseph and Bobby inhabit two conflicting worlds in late 1980s New York, the former becoming a cop and the latter running a nightclub. Bobby spends his evenings in a den of iniquity, indulging in drugs, alcohol, and gambling, and his model-like girlfriend Amada (Eva Mendes) is never far from his arm. Their two worlds meet when the father of the two men, Burt (Robert Duvall), who is also a cop, gets together with Joseph to ask Bobby for information about a patron of the club named Vadim (Alex Veadov). Vadim is the nephew of the club's owner, and also a dangerous member of the Russian criminal underworld. Bobby sides with Vadim, and the tension in Gray's brother-versus-brother potboiler reaches melting point as Joseph goes after both his sibling and his Russian foe.
Wahlberg, Phoenix, and Duvall all deliver high-caliber performances throughout, and Gray suffuses the plot with enough twists and turns to provide a few surprises. New York City is perfectly utilized as a backdrop to the action, and cinematographer Joaquin Baca-Asay manages to get the balance between moody, atmospheric shots and explosive action sequences just right. WE OWN THE NIGHT ultimately resembles an old-fashioned cop film with a little Scorsese-like drama thrown in for good measure, and is likely to gain a following among movie fans seeking retro crime thrills.
Wahlberg, Phoenix, and Duvall all deliver high-caliber performances throughout, and Gray suffuses the plot with enough twists and turns to provide a few surprises. New York City is perfectly utilized as a backdrop to the action, and cinematographer Joaquin Baca-Asay manages to get the balance between moody, atmospheric shots and explosive action sequences just right. WE OWN THE NIGHT ultimately resembles an old-fashioned cop film with a little Scorsese-like drama thrown in for good measure, and is likely to gain a following among movie fans seeking retro crime thrills.
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- Sales Rank: 46,531
- UPC: 043396225343
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