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We Own the Night (2007)
description written by member Zara:
New York, 1988: A new breed of narcotics has swept the great city, bringing with it a ferocious crime wave more terrifying than any in recent memory. Outmanned and outgunned by the new criminal order, the police find themselves burying one of their own at the rate of two a month. An all-out war rages, threatening to engulf guilty and innocent alike. Starring Mark Wahlberg and Joaquin Phoenix.
| Release Date: | October 12th, 2007 |
| MPAA Rating: | R |
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We Own the Night Movie Review by Tim  (2/13/2008) |
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This film could have been so much better. The cast was well chosen with the exception of Eva Mendes, lets face it she is a pretty face and nice body but her acting is just horrible and annoying.
Mark Wahlberg (I never thought I would say this) is just become good in anything that he does. I really am eating my words on...
(complete We Own the Night review by Tim)
This is more of a family picture than a crime flick. Sure it's the cops against the Russian Mafia, but that action is just a small part of the film.
There are only three real action scenes in the whole movie. They really frame the conflict going on as one brother (Mark Wahlberg) stays in the family business - the NYPD,...
(complete We Own the Night review by Movie Addict)
| We Own the Night Movie Review by T (2/7/2008) |
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I had high hopes for this movie, because the Wahlberg/Phoenix dynamic was awesome in The Yards, but We Own The Night didn't measure up. Wahlberg was in the movie for what amounted to an extended cameo. The story was predictable and kind of slow. The most noticeable and frustrating thing was the way Joaquin Phoenix slurred...
(complete We Own the Night review by T)
| We Own the Night Movie Review by Ben (12/24/2007) |
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"We Own The Night" was written and directed by James Gray, and this is the first movie of his that I have seen. He has directed a couple of other movies, including "The Yards" and "Little Odessa," and he seems more drawn to character driven movies. These kinds of movies threaten to be a dying breed in cinema today. Nice to...
(complete We Own the Night review by Ben)
| We Own the Night Movie Review by Jarrod (10/13/2007) |
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'We Own the Night' is a gritty crime drama that looks and feels a lot like The Departed, with two men on opposite sides of the law, but this premise is shorn of its complexities, as in The Departed, you had two cops, one working for a mob boss, the other pretending to, and both aware that there is a spy in the ranks. ...
(complete We Own the Night review by Jarrod)
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