Four Brothers
Paramount Pictures | Release Date: August 12, 2005 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
49
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 31 Critic Reviews
Positive:
12
Mixed:
13
Negative:
6
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38
Miami HeraldRene Rodriguez
Singleton's sloppiest, laziest movie to date, springing to life in fits and starts, risibly mawkish and occasionally gripping, and often feeling like it was made up on the set. Read full review
38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Jason Anderson
The director's approach is far too ham-fisted and erratic to bring Four Brothers up to the level of enjoyable trash -- it's too crummy to earn that distinction. Read full review
25
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
Because the script, riddled with verbal ugliness by David Elliot and Paul Lovett, sends the movie to a series of arbitrary nowheres, the final showdown for the Mercer boys and their enemies is just as meaningless and sense-deadening. Read full review
20
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
Four Brothers regresses into gallows comedy, rampant misogyny, and one preposterous Hollywood action setpiece after another. Read full review
20
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
A career low for Mark Wahlberg and director John Singleton (Boyz N the Hood), this ridiculous mean-streets adventure starts out like a Hell's Kitchen melodrama from the 30s and eventually spins off into a series of gunfights, beat downs, and trite Motown numbers. Read full review
12
New York PostKyle Smith
Four Brothers? Ringling Brothers is more like it, because John Singleton's latest stinks like something the elephants left behind. It's not clear what the film is trying to do, but it seems safe to guess that it's doing it wrong. Read full review
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