Review of We Own the Night (2007) by Aaron M — 14 Nov 2012

Its a decent movie, but overall it just dragged on and on...

This review of We Own the Night (2007) was written by Aaron M on 14 Nov 2012.

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Very solid movie. A few decent action pieces and great acting all around. Highly underrated…

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It's awfully difficult at this point in film history to come up with a car chase that's startlingly new, but Gray pulls it off…

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Gray knows how to sell the idea of unalterable destiny with a car chase: That’s the mark of a real action director…

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Gray would have been happiest, I guess, to make movies in the nineteen-seventies, and this one feels much closer to 1975 than to 1988; he could…

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Plenty of potential with a Wahlberg/Phoenix double act. I think this movie really hit the downturn of Joaquin's acting career…

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By Michael L (2,383) on 01 Jul 2015

There is a germ of a good movie here, but this isn't a good film. Too much cliche in the plot (It's the father figure! The old cop dies…

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We Own The Night is not a bad crime drama to watch once. A good cast and the simplicity of the main story, one can even say its commonplace…

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By Harry W (1,900) on 02 Jan 2014

We Own The Night sounded great on the surface as it teamed up the pair of talented actors Joaquin Phoenix and Mark Whalberg for a crime story…

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