We Own the Night

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We Own the Night

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We Own the Night

Eva Mendes, Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Wahlberg, Robert Duvall, Tony Musante

A New York nightclub manager tries to save his brother and father from Russian mafia hit men.

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  • garyX
    February 13, 2009
    garyX
    Joaquin Phoenix plays a nightclub owner approached by his brother who is a policeman in the NYPD to help him investigate a drug dealer. We Own The Night has the heavyweight names and artsy photography to trick the casual browser into thinking that it is an intelligent and insight...( read more)ful piece of film making. Unfortunately, the cocktail of nasty Russian gangsters, dysfunctional cop family stereotypes and bedside vigils is straight out of a Steven Seagal movie. In fact Phoenix's shambling, mumbling performance even reminded me of the kung fu fatso, and by the end when the NYPD hands over a badge and a shotgun to a guy who serves drinks for a living it actually seemed even less credible. On the other hand, at least Seagal films can be so bad they're amusing, whereas this is just knuckle-draggingly DULL. Add fatuous dialogue and a mercilessly predictable plot and you have something with pretention to being high drama but is in fact a total yawn fest.
  • allan913
    January 30, 2009
    allan913
    An incrediably powerful and absolutely unforgettable movie. Tremendous, stylish, shocking, heart-pounding and exhilerating. It's The Departed meets The French connection. A masterpiece. Director, James Gray crafts another remarkable crime film. A sizzeling and adreniline-pumping ...( read more)crime drama that delivers full-on force that dosent let up. An explosive and yet rare film of the importance of loyalty and family and such the thin line they stand on. I loved this amasing movie. Mark Wahlberg and Joaquin Phoenix give compelling, emotionally gripping and complex powerhouse performances. They set the screen on fire in every scene they are in. Robert Duvall is teriffic as always. Eva Mendes is surprisingly effective. A film in which dedication from the entire crew shows what a superb movie is all about. It's totally and utterly electrifying. It's riveting and exhilerating. Truly top-notch. It will keep you on the edge of your seat. It's very tense, exciting and filled with action and suspense at every corner.
  • mwilliams078
    October 26, 2008
    mwilliams078
    "We Own The Night" starring Mark Wahlberg, Joaquin Phoenix, Eva Mendes, and Robert Duvall is a very good crime drama.

    A story about two brothers where one is a well respected police officer (wahlberg) and the other is on the wrong side (phoenix). When some very large drug dea...( read more)lers from Russia are out to get police officers for putting a drug raid on there club people will have choose which side of the law to be on.....this movie overall is a very good film worth seeing.
  • garystev
    October 26, 2008
    garystev
    Well made, character driven crime drama with a classic premise and the best dive out of a window I've seen in ages! It does drag at times and could have done with some more ferocious editing, but Joaquin Phoenix' truly steals the show. It's a bit of a slow burn, but the payoff is...( read more) very cool. A tighter script would have been a godsend, but we have is still highly entertaining..... especially for that dive out the window!!!!
  • kiriyamakazou
    October 1, 2008
    kiriyamakazou
    Average cop thriller with a bit of greatness and much to be disappointed by. The film never really capitalises on the whole family aspect of the story. Not just with immediate family but also Phoenix's family with the club owner. Wahlberg is completely wasted. He shows up and doe...( read more)s literally nothing. DuVall is as good as he can be as the father who is stuck with stupid lines like "You don't marry an ape and complain about the smell of bananas". It's left to Phoenix to hold the film together but his character jumps into being a cop so quickly he never seems conflicted enough. Mendes' fate is left hanging and the film seems unfinished. Many of the scenes are handled excellently. The car chase moment is brilliant, showing from just one point of view though the windshield rather than a lot of meaningless cuts. It gives it that extra impact the whole film is in need of. The undercover drug hide-out scene is also brilliant and seems very real with the tension and confusion over who is who building to an unbearable moment. The finale though is over all a bit sudden. In short the focus was in the wrong place.
  • seraphdrakken
    December 29, 2009
    seraphdrakken
    Interesting but cliched.
  • alenspirk
    December 28, 2009
    alenspirk
    Nije lo?e,podsje?a na filmove starog kova...
  • gultenreiz
    December 23, 2009
    gultenreiz
    Sometime when watching a movie is so uncanny how the theory of relativity seems to make so much sense, I mean this movie seemed like forever, maybe if I see it enough times, will ensure me a never ending existence....
    This movie didn't looked all that great, but at least was with...( read more) Phoenix, but even him could not do nothing for this one.
    The plot is one of the most stupid: 2 brothers , one cop, one a club owner , the father dies, the club owner becomes a cop and revenge his father ,killing in cold blood the man who was responsible. My sympathy for Phoenix was sky high in that moment, ah, what a character...
    But I don't understand a thing; the police takes nowadays in its bosom everyone from the streets, even one that was somewhat an addict and was linked with mafia?
  • Nawya
    December 21, 2009
    Nawya
    really......it's not easy being a cop. Joaquine...uffff, simply amazing, his face is like looking at heaven
  • dex5
    November 23, 2009
    dex5
    If you piss in your pants, you only stay warm for so long.
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