We Own The Night

Pros: Great cast, interesting premise, visually appealing.
Cons: The second half.

Set in late-1980s New York City and starring a cast full of hotties, We Own the Night pits the police against the bad guys, and brother against brother. Joaquin Phoenix stars as Bobby Green, sexy, edgy, nightclub owner with a ridiculously sexy ...

Pros: Great car chase scene
Cons: Didn't build up the characters enough

I went into We Own the Night with pretty low expectations because I thought writer/director James Gray’s previous movie, The Yards, was rather boring. This movie turned out to be quite excellent, with a good story, great acting, and one of ...

Pros: Starts out OK, with a decent premise, and a nice cast.
Cons: But can't get over its bad script.

We Own The Night is a mixture of police drama and family drama set in New York City, in the 1980's.  The Grusinsky family is as divided as a family can be.  Dad (Robert Duvall) is the honorable, much-decorated Police Chief.  ...

Pros: great acting by Phoenix
Cons: high drama and family goo

We Own the Night takes its title from the motto of the narcotics police squad from mid 1980s in New York.  The film is a grand narrative about a son's fall from grace and eventual rise in respect to his father and brother.Drug addled Bobby ...

Pros: Slightly interesting style, some alright action sequences
Cons: Horrible script, very bland acting, zero character development

Some movies are just flat out bad. Others are just dissapointing. Then there are movies that are bad that think they are good and because these movies think they're good they just end up being labled as contrived and annoying. "We Own The Night" is one ...

Pros: The chemistry among the lead actors.
Cons: Long duration; flat dialog.

Three very fine actors- Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Wahlberg, and Robert Duvall, with a good supporting effort by Eva Mendes- collaborate to give us a rough, ragged, but still finely tuned little period piece in We Own The Night. Stories about 1980s ...

Pros: great acting, excellent casting, good atmosphere
Cons: idealistic storytelling, lack of conflict

We Own the Night revives the American cop genre, with the title coming from the 1988 NYPD detective logo. Despite a stunning performance by Joaquin Phoenix, and near perfect casting by writer/director James Grey, We Own the Night ends up a ...

Pros: intriguing story, great performance from Joaquin Phoenix
Cons: fairly stereotypical characters, doesn't really engage the audience

This is the story of two grown brothers, Joe (Mark Wahlberg) and Bobby (Joaquin Pheonix), and their father (Robert Duvall). Collectively they are the Grusinkys, a family as normal as any American family…except that Joe and their father Albert are ...

Pros: No B.S.; great leads
Cons: May be a little too corny at the end (but not for long)

In New York circa 1988, the Russian mafia have made it overseas to begin their drug-dealing business. Thrown into the mix is Bobby Green (Joaquin Phoenix), an upstart club owner looking to make it out of Brooklyn and begin a good life with his girlfriend ...

Pros: Solid story with dynamite performance by Joaquin Phoenix.
Cons: One that develops an appreciation after watching.

Joaquin Phoenix is becoming a force to be reckoned with in the acting field. After a tremendous performance as Johnny Cash in WALK THE LINE, Phoenix returns to the screen in this drama about a family of policemen in New York. Phoenix stars as Bobby ...

Pros: Action-packed and engrossing movie. An amazing performance from Joaquin Phoenix.
Cons: Lackluster, type-casting performance from Mark Walhberg and Robert Duvall.

Starring Joaquin Phoenix as Bobby Green, Mark Wahlberg as Joseph Grusinsky, Eva Mendes as Amada Juarez, and Robert Duvall as Burt Grusinsky. Written and directed by James Gray. This is a story about a family in turmoil. Burt Grusinsky is the Chief of ...