On the surface, We Own the Night promises a heavy hitting cop drama. In fact what we get is a Cop drama that offers little more than a tap on the shoulder to get your attention.
The movie starts off a little slow & hardly ever picks up, save a rather visually satisfying car chase in the rain. There were so many opportunities to have some "pick-up" but every attempt seemed to come across as forced or uninspired (see the drug raid)& a lot of the time out of no where.
While I believe Jaoquin Phoenix & Mark Whalberg are great, they have the most character development (esspecially Jaoquin), the rest of the cast seems bored & uncaring for the script. Which brings me to the major failing of this movie, The villains come across as clichéd & not intimidating. I'm sorry but simply because the drug dealers are Russian doesn't make them anymore intense or intimidating than a gang banger sporting a wife-beater thinking he's the next Tony Montana.
Too many promises that are granted with horribly overused clichés like "your either with them or us", & weak characters make We Own the Night a failure in the Cop Drama category.
The movie starts off a little slow & hardly ever picks up, save a rather visually satisfying car chase in the rain. There were so many opportunities to have some "pick-up" but every attempt seemed to come across as forced or uninspired (see the drug raid)& a lot of the time out of no where.
While I believe Jaoquin Phoenix & Mark Whalberg are great, they have the most character development (esspecially Jaoquin), the rest of the cast seems bored & uncaring for the script. Which brings me to the major failing of this movie, The villains come across as clichéd & not intimidating. I'm sorry but simply because the drug dealers are Russian doesn't make them anymore intense or intimidating than a gang banger sporting a wife-beater thinking he's the next Tony Montana.
Too many promises that are granted with horribly overused clichés like "your either with them or us", & weak characters make We Own the Night a failure in the Cop Drama category.