Movie Review: We Own the Night

Movie Review – We Own the Night

By Rexus Maximus, aka Rex OHurlihan, aka the Grand Poobah, aka Anton “don’t talk about my haircut” Chigurh

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0498399/

Written and directed by a guy named James Gray, whom really is pretty low-radar but apparently did a great indie flick called Little Odessa back in the 90s. The movie is pretty much what you would expect. Pretty typical Action/Crime Drama. The acting is good, not great, which you would expect with the great cast (Phoenix, Wahlberg, Duvall, Mendez). The storyline is not complex. There are no plot twists. Wahlberg plays his typical role of hard-ass police/ law person. Phoenix plays his typical role of eccentric/disgruntled wish-he-had-done-more-with-his-life type of character. Duvall has very, very little dialogue (which is a shame). There was a scene in the previews last year that really intrigued me about this film; it led me to believe there was something more, something sinister, something unique, something clever. It was a seemingly simple scene of a man wearing some sort of a sac on his head with eyeholes in it walking assassin-style with a pistola. Sorta made you think of the Scarecrow (the Cillian Murphy version). Well, this was an all-to-typical scene that basically was all divulged in the trailer. This was a one-time deal, nothing more about it. Just a killing.

The movie is a decent rental, but I was disappointed purely based upon the cast (Phoenix is tops on my list of actors) and the aforementioned assassin with the bag-head scene.

Rating: 2/5

-rexus