Four Brothers Critic Reviews

With equal measures of rock-the-house vigor and in-your-face attitude, Four Brothers proves usually potent and consistently enjoyable as an old school approach to what might best be described as the urban-Western genre of slam-bang, balls-out action-revenger.Read the full review

A typically energetic urban action melodrama, offering car chases, beatings, murders, a dog mauling, attempted arson, frequent double-crosses and pitched street battles worthy of Fallouja.Read the full review

If you take any of this seriously, you are not going to enjoy the movie very much. But as an absurd riff on baadasssss gangsta movies, Four Brothers has an undeniable visceral kick.Read the full review

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 the full review

For all its well-drawn lines between good and evil, Four Brothers is ultimately passive entertainment.Read the full review

Preposterous yet solidly entertaining.Read the full review

More action directors should include scenes such as the Mercers' extended Thanksgiving dinner, which fleshes out the bond between the brothers without using too many words.Read the full review

What holds us are the actors, including Terrence Howard as a cop who grew up with the brothers.Read the full review

Four Brothers works as an urban thriller, if not precisely as a model of logic.Read the full review