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We Own The Night (2007)

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Reviews Counted: 134 Fresh: 74  Rotten:60 Average Rating: 5.8/10
 
Consensus: Bland characters, clichéd dialogue and rickety plotting ensure We Own The Night never lives up to its potential.
 

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Runtime: 1 hr 58 mins

Theatrical Release: Oct 12, 2007 Wide

Box Office: $28,563,179

Synopsis: 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... 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. [More]

Genre: Dramas

Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Wahlberg, Eva Mendes, Robert Duvall

Director: James Gray
Screenwriter: James Gray
Producer: Mark Wahlberg, Joaquin Phoenix, Nick Wechsler, Marc Butan
Composer: Wojciech Kilar

DVD Info

Release:

Feb 12, 2008

[DVD Details]

Blu-ray Features:

  • Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.1 - English, French, Spanish
  • Subtitles - English, French, Hindi, Spanish - Optional

Additional Release Materials:

  • Audio Commentary - James Gray - Director
  • Featurettes - 1. "Police Action: Filming Cops, Cars, and Chaos"
  • 2. "A Moment in Crime: Creating Late 80's Brooklyn"

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Although We Own the Night is never as suspenseful as it wants to be and can be a little formulaic, it never comes close to being boring, and that's something you can't say too often about movies these days.

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07/22/08
Adam Tobias
Watertown Daily Times
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(We Own the Night) was terribly written and just such a waste of great actors.

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05/24/08
Kevin McCarthy
WJFK-FM (CBS Radio)
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4/5

A heavyweight piece that, like its impressive cast, competently and quietly does the business.

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05/14/08
Chris Laverty
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04/03/08
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3.5/5

Lovers of good straightforward thrillers should find plenty to enjoy here.

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03/19/08
David Stratton
At the Movies
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6/10

It's a roller coaster, mainly because a good scene is typically followed by a bad one. For every thrill, there is a melodramatic moment that just doesn't work.

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03/04/08
Jeff Bayer
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02/29/08
Sydney Morning Herald
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These are some of the finest actors in America, so it's no surprise that they deliver the goods and create solid, complex and accessible characters we can understand.

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02/21/08
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We Own the Night declaws the organized crime genre.

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02/15/08
Christian Toto
Washington Times
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Eva Mendes seems to basically be around just to work hard feeding her man Joaquin's erotic fantasies for some relaxation on his down time, in this grim, meandering excursion through Brooklyn's mean streets.

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02/02/08
Prairie Miller
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3/6

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01/18/08
Joshua Rothkopf
Time Out New York
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3/5

Traz vários bons momentos que o transformam em um exemplar de gênero acima da média, a começar por alguns excelentes diálogos.

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01/16/08
Pablo Villaca
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2/5

haraktires poy tha mporoysan aneta na perasoyn arketo hrono akoma se skoteina syrtaria, mpas kai mporesoyn na skoteiniasoyn arketa oi idioi gia na metamorfothoyn se kati esto endiaferon an ohi diaforetiko

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01/14/08
Joseph Proimakis
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01/14/08
Newsday
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2/4

You probably won't hate it, but that's because you probably won't feel much of anything about it

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12/20/07
Marty Mapes
Movie Habit
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1/5

A sombre, intelligent, feeling crime drama set in a working-class New York characterised by striving and shabbiness.

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12/14/07
Robert Hanks
Independent
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The stand-out set piece is an agonising car chase in the rain, replacing the full-throttle showmanship of the Bourne series with a foot on the brake, a shotgun pointing out of the adjacent car, and a series of tight close-ups on the terrified Phoenix.

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12/14/07
Tim Robey
Daily Telegraph
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Offers little that Scorsese doesn’t offer with more élan and wit.

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12/14/07
Nigel Andrews
Financial Times
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It is a little cumbersome with plenty of macho-sentimentalism, and the ending is frankly contrived. But go and see it for the car chase.

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12/14/07
Peter Bradshaw
Guardian [UK]
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3/5

Stylishly directed by James Gray, this dark film does a great job portraying the violent gang scene of 1980s New York. More sophisticated than most cop flicks.

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12/14/07
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