Four Stars, Movie Reviews - Friday, January 6, 2006 6:14 - 8 Comments

Four Brothers (DVD)

I’ve been meaning to see this film for quite sometime now. When it hit the theaters, I just totally missed it. I’ve been a fan of Mark Wahlberg’s films since his performances in Boogie Nights and The Big Hit. He isn’t the best rap star (Marky Mark), but his films have always been pretty good.

Four Brothers combined all three elements that make a good movie. It had just the right amounts of action, comedy, and drama mixed into it. Overall, I thought the movie had a good balance of the three. The acting was also well done. As I mentioned earlier, I’ve always been a fan of “The actor” Mark Wahlberg, but I’ve never found Andre Benjamin or Tyrese to be great actors. Their movies were mediocre at best. In this film however, I thought they provided the perfect supporting cast.

The storyline itself is pretty much your typical revenge type theme, but the plot itself it much thicker than I thought it would be. This is definately a great rental. Pick it up.

After their adoptive mother is murdered during a grocery store hold-up, the Mercer brothers–hotheaded Bobby, hard-edged Angel, family man and businessman Jeremiah, and hard rocking Jack–reunite to take the matter of her death into their own hands. As they track down the killer, they quickly realize that their old ways of doing business have new consequences. Its not as predictable as you might think.

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