Four Brothers
Four Brothers Review
John Singleton's Four
Brothers starts nicely and efficiently quick. After encountering
the murder of Evelyn, the film quickly shifts gears to the brothers arriving
at the ceremony after the funeral. Here we get a quick introduction to three
of the four brothers, and learn that each of these guys, two white and two
black, were lost causes and could only find refuge with the saint of a mother
Evelyn Mercer. In the summary of each brother we discover that these guys
are like congressmen to what they would have become.
But are these brothers going to take the murder of their mother sitting
down? Hell no, these guys have come back to Detroit to find justice, something
they believe the local police can't do.
This is where one of the first flaws to Four Brothers surfaces.
Through out the film we watch Bobby [Mark Wahlberg], Angel [Tyrese], Jeremiah
[André 3000] and Jack [Garrett Hedlund] do their own investigative work
and it would seem that these guys are ten times more efficient than the
entire Detroit police force. The brothers discover the identities of the
'shooters' the first night of investigating from a local bartender [a bartender
knows and the cops don't?], which quickly leads them into a conflict with
the persons mentioned. This conflict constitutes a second, and major flaw,
to Four Brothers; a flaw that pops up repeatedly though out the
course of the film.
Four Brothers
I was able to let this fact go the first time, but then again we are greeted
to another gunfight that features not a single other person, moving car,
or anything for that matter but the people who are actually involved with
the ordeal. How realistic is this? To top it off, this gunfight, featuring
automatic weapons, lasts for almost ten minutes and when it finishes, the
brothers suggest that some one should call the police so they would show
up. You have to call the police after an ordeal like that?
The last big 'what the?' for me was the fact that these four brothers cruise
all around Detroit committing multiple crimes without anybody seeming to
care. Even people they commit the crime against just seem to have the 'let
bygones be bygones' attitude. The various scenes, including the gunfights,
that feature crimes such as these just make Four Brothers look
very unbelievable. It's nice to know that Detroit is like the Wild West
where everybody can carry a gun, but it just doesn't all add up.
Mark Wahlberg takes lead in Four Brothers
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