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John Singleton 's "Four Brothers" is an urban Western, or maybe it's an urban movie inspired by a Western; either way, it's intended to be more mythic than realistic. It connects with underlying moral currents in the way Westerns used to, back before greed, fear, anger and "society" provided action movies with all the motivation they needed.
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When an inner-city Detroit foster mother (Fionnula Flanagan) is murdered in a botched holdup, four of her now-grown adopted children suspect it was no random killing.
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Four Brothers could be the best film he's made since then, pulling great performances from Mark Wahlberg who surprised me so much in Boogie Nights, Tyrese Gibson, Andre Benjamin, Garrett Hedlund, and Terence Howard, who is always so good.
Aug 13, 2005 · Four adopted brothers -- two white and two black -- are reunited when their mother, Evelyn Mercer (Fionnula Flanagan), is murdered during an apparent holdup at a small grocery store. Leading...
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- Revenge Isn't Sweet
For this movie, filmmaker John Singleton brought together a diverse cast that turned out to have a ton of chemistry with each other, appearing as a real life family. In 2005, Mark Wahlberg was an already established actor, so audiences were used to his acting and found his character, Bobby Mercer, to be familiar to his other roles. Andre 3000 was a...
Movies that focus around siblingsoften have a hard time being distinctive about how close they are as brothers/sisters, and oftentimes can be seen as corny with how hard they try to make it look natural. Maybe it's because they're supposed to be adoptive brothers, but Bobby, Jerry, Angel, and Jack mesh so well together, it's easy to believe that th...
Throughout the entire movie, revenge is the one thing on the four brothers' minds after their mom is murdered at a corner store. They barely have time to grieve before they decide to take over the city they all used to live in; Bobby leading the manhunt for whoever called the set-up on their mother. When they figure out that it was Victor Sweet, th...
Jul 1, 2005 · Four Brothers: Directed by John Singleton. With Mark Wahlberg, Tyrese Gibson, André 3000, Garrett Hedlund. When their adoptive mother is gunned down in a store robbery, four brothers decide to investigate the murder and find the killers themselves, but not all is what it seems.
Aug 12, 2005 · After their adoptive mother is murdered during a grocery store holdup, the Mercer brothers -- hotheaded Bobby (Wahlberg), hard-edged Angel (Gibson), family man and businessman Jeremiah (Benjamin) and hard rocking Jack (Hedlund) -- reunite to take the matter of her death into their own hands.
