We Own the Night

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Actor: Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Wahlberg, Mendes, Robert Duvall
Brand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language); Russian (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 117 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-02-12
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures

DVD Reviews of We Own the Night

DVD Review: Great Movie
Summary: 5 Stars

I really love this movie. I would recommend this movie to Joaquin Phoenix or Mark Wahlberg fans. I like both actors very much and to see a movie with both actors was a great pleasure.

DVD Review: Family ties and drug crime
Summary: 3 Stars

Story about two brothers, one policemen and the other night club manager whose professional lives clash. While one is following the family tradition of being a policemen, the other is trying to break on his own. This is all good until it turns out that the owner of the night club, a Russian immigrant who is officially in fur business, decides to expand his drug business from Brooklyn to Manhattan. In an effort to secure market advantage and scare police away from his operations, he gives out orders to muscle the police officer who (unknown to him at the time) happens to be his night club manager's brother. And it is at that moment that story starts to unrevel. Loyalties get tested between friends, family members and in love relationships. Interesting film, well told, but pales in comparison to a movie like "Departed". Eva Mendes plays beautiful and seductive girlfriend, but I hope, for her acting future, that she can show more to the audience but the ability to handle hot intimate scenes.

DVD Review: Fantastic!
Summary: 5 Stars

This movie was fantastic all the way through! Starts off good, and never quits! Watch it!

DVD Review: Sooooooo Slowwwwww
Summary: 1 Stars

They must have passed out depressants to the cast when shooting this movie.
I wanted to jump into the scenes with Phoenix and jump start his heart so he could continue. I believe it was the directors job to get the timing right in this slow mo druggie versus cop movie and he failed miserably.

DVD Review: Better Than Your Average
Summary: 4 Stars

Forget American Gangster. Really, forget it. With a good movie like "We Own the Night" tackling the same subject matter with much better results, there's no reason to subject yourself to hours of dragged out gangster worship. But this isn't a comparison paper, this is a review. So let me break it down.

The acting is great. I'm not usually impressed by big names, because as most serious movie lovers know, big names doesn't mean "good movie," but I must say that Joaquin Phoenix has been consistently impressive with each role he's taken of late. In the same way he became the Man in Black for Walk the Line, he completely becomes Bobby Green, making the audience love and hate this guy who can't seem to figure out which direction his life is taking. He's always been around the dealers and hung with them, but he's never become involved with them too deep. His father and brother, both cops, have never clashed with him too much, though their relationship is all tense. However, as the drug situation worsens, Bobby's two lives begin to clash, and he has to pick a side.

Part police drama, part gangster flick, part thriller, and all character driven, this will leave you captivated until the very end. The visuals are always interesting--more than once, I felt like it was shot like a horror movie, what with the dim lighting and moody sets--and the music is phenomenal, particularly a recurring almost childlike theme that plays over all of the key moments. Overall, the movie could have been shortened a bit without losing very much, but as far as executing a story, writer/director James Gray did a commendable job.

This doesn't have any impact at all on my rating of this movie, but I just need to say that the cover for the DVD is horrible. From the design of the words to the two panels on the side with Mendes and Duvall, the entire concept is shockingly cheesy. As I said, that doesn't reflect on my review, but this is a movie that deserves a cover that will catch prospective the eye of a prospective buyer... and this most certainly would not.

One last thing, in comparison to "American Gangster," this movie doesn't go out of its way to glorify the gangster life to get "oooooohs" and "ahhhhhhs" from the crowd. It shows how dirty that lifestyle can get--as well as how appealing it can be--without making it seem heroic, or the cool thing to do. This movie strikes a balance, creating a nice morally grey area that leaves the characters and the viewers questioning which side, if any, is in the right.

7/10

Description of We Own the Night

In We Own the Night, Joaquin Phoenix, whose eyes burn with sullen anger even when he's looking at the woman he loves, plays Bobby Green, a nightclub manager in the 1980s who gets caught between his blood family he tried to leave behind--a long line of police officers--and his chosen family of friends and business partners, who turn out to be drug dealers. His father (Robert Duvall) and brother (Mark Wahlberg) want Bobby to help their investigation, but Bobby resists--until the conflict takes a brutal turn. Writer/director James Gray wears his influences on his sleeve; he's clearly seen every movie that Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola ever made and aspires to follow in their footsteps. The familiarity of the movie's territory dilutes its impact, but the plot of We Own the Night remains unpredictable, the performances have a clean vitality, and Gray's moody visual style brings some life to the genre. Phoenix (Walk the Line) dives into his role, sifting through layers of guilt and familial resentment; Wahlberg and Duvall play parts they've essentially played a dozen times, but do so with commitment and integrity. Also featuring Eva Mendes (Ghost Rider) as Bobby's devoted girlfriend, who questions just how much she'll have to give up for him. --Bret Fetzer

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What if your own family stood in the way of everything you worked for? Bobby Green (Joaquin Phoenix) has forsaken his name to escape his family and their tradition in law enforcement to pursue his ambitions as a Brooklyn nightclub owner. As he turns a blind eye to the drug dealers around him he comes face to face with the family he abandoned when his brother (Mark Wahlberg) and father (Robert Duvall) crack down on the club. Now Bobby must choose a side. Is he going to turn informant or will he help run the biggest crime ring in New York history?System Requirements:Run Time: 117 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA/CRIME & CRIMINALS Rating: R UPC: 043396225312 Manufacturer No: 22531

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