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We Own the Night ***

New York, 1988. The rich and beautiful Bobby manages El Caribe, "a trendy East on behalf of the Mafia in the company of his attractive girlfriend Amada, his father, Albert Grusinsky, he was appointed deputy head of the police department of the city, his brother, following in the footsteps of his father, is who was also a highly respected police officer. The relationship between Bobby and the other two is not easy and certainly do not contribute to the investigation that his brother Joseph will about his local exchange to a dangerous drug.

The streets of the two brothers inevitably end up with the intersection and this will lead them to a reassessment of their relationship, especially Bobby would ponder on what his true path.

Two brothers and a father. Once again, as often happens in the work of recent years, returns to the theme of the family.

This time it's up to James Gray that after "The Yards "(2000) recalls, struck them from acting, Joaquin Phoenix and Mark Wahlberg.

Gray builds a good movie. The idea that you have just finished the vision is that the director had, since suddenly, the intention to create something epic, which remained in history. You can also hear influences in this regard of the great cinema of the past for this kind such as, for example, that of Scorsese. In my opinion it fails totally. However creates sequences of great importance as that of the chase in the rain will remain in history. Almost comic in a way. Constructs then, despite everything, a good detective even if the scenes and sequences characteristic of this kind, not plentiful, are sometimes merely hinted at, leaving more space to scenes dialogue.

Very good photo, like the aforementioned scene, and music more than adequate, especially in the scenes of disco. (In particular Blondie - Heart of Glass).

The film begins well, Phoenix is \u200b\u200bconvincing right from the start, and the first half hour is the characterization: Bobby and his girlfriend Amada, a Eva Mendes more beautiful than ever that ends up falling into place common fine and superficial, but played very well the plight of a woman whose life, in parallel with that of the boy, with inevitably causes pain and continued suffering for the trend of events. Robert Duvall as every character he plays excels everywhere, even in the shoes of this authoritarian father initially against his son Joseph laudable but, at the appropriate time, thinks and knows how to appreciate sympathetically and, in some cases, to defend the other child. The only criticism that can be done about the cast is perhaps the choice of Mark Whalberg, obviously not for technical reasons, certainly has the talent (it was the superb "The Departed"), but perhaps the choice of the director, never gets too far into history and it seems almost wasted on that role.

Ultimately, good old-fashioned detective.

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Honor your father and mother **** *** Rec


Little Master of the now 83enne but timeless masterpiece, this Sidney Lumet.

The American returns to the big screen telling a family tragedy.

This is the story of two brothers, Andy and Hank Hanson, both in great economic crisis in key moments of their lives. Andy, the eldest of two devises a plan that seeks to involve right now Hank. Andy decides to rob a jewelry store to "family business", one of the parents. Not being able to pull back now, Hawk condescends to the plan.
Having worked there in the past and knowing alarms, cameras and storage times, the two predict the perfect shot. However, something goes wrong and the situation is more complicated ....

to "Honor thy father and mother" is a hard, visceral anguish as they occur and the sin of every single character. Characters are characterized by very well thanks to the technical director on which the film, that of flasback. With this Lumet makes the feelings of each character from different points of view from different angles and enables you to build the story slowly, piece by piece until then result in the cathartic final. In addition, Lumet can not lapse into any occasion with the rhetoric, while maintaining a balanced tone, far from easy moralizing, even in a story in which the human being shows itself in all its pettiness.

This is also due to the talented cast on which he could rely. First of all the masterful Philip Seymour Hoffman in the role of poor older brother able to hide behind the mask of ordinariness. Latter 'as good and could be limited to acting using expressive looks and gestures, making the script useless. A discharged him from the shoulder Ethan Hawke and Marisa Tomei sexy, putting over "naked" by the director of Philadelphia. Bravissimo last but not now find the expert Albert Finney in the role of grieving father and murdered by pain.

Lumet gives us a great movie not only for the undeniable technical skill and the excellent performances of the actors, but also because it tells a story of today in a world where individualism, ambition, greed and blind Only the interest, break down, for most of the time, successfully the true values \u200b\u200bof life, eventually prevail on family relationships more expensive. This is the message I wanted to send us by the director: the complex nature of imperfect men.

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"Pablo resume all"

Rec, this is the last job title English director Jaume Balaguer already the author of films such as Darkness (2000) and the not so lucky Fragile (2005). Back in 2007 with the collaboration of Paco Plaza for the genre they prefer, the horror.

The situation is set in Spain, Barcelona to be exact. It all starts with the presentation of the two main characters. Angela and Pablo are working for a local television station. Their program will be "while you sleep" because their work is to show the jobs of all those who join, to be precise, only with the arrival of evening.

This night their task is to follow a team of firefighters and maybe their call for a possible intervention. Call that takes place. Everything seems to be normal: an old woman screaming repeatedly in his palace warns all roommates. When they got there and made good by a police patrol, our players will come across anything but a docile old. This In fact, unexpectedly and somewhat mysterious ends up attacking a fireman and a police officer causing them irreparable harm and a creeping sense of dread and disbelief in all the others. But this is only the beginning of a film that began so undeniably slow and flat, the viewer will eventually shake several times making him jump from his chair.

Introduced in 2007 in Venice "Rec" Balaguer juggles in my opinion very well in that direction, although not original themes and type of recovery ("Blair Witch Project", "28 Days Later" only for name two) proves a good product reformer than many other films of similar genre-out until recently and which have failed to grasp the sign remained at a relatively low level of mediocrity.

elements belonging to horror are all there and the atmosphere is typical of the genre.

The skill of the director may also lies in 'knowing how to create a bond between the characters and the audience, which ultimately is definitely rooting for them hoping for a way to salvation. Characters are all well characterized and that the actors, Manuela Velasco in the first place, to interpret the situation very well find themselves living full showing of their own humanity.

The real strength of this so "Rec" is not so much the story, given multiple times, as the skill of the director for which the only worth the ticket price.

It 'also a soundtrack that does not particularly affects the film but this does not even penalized.

We also address issues of great importance, as the criticism that the director is coming to television which is increasingly intent on wanting to forcibly send images increasingly barbaric and ruthless because that's what viewers want, maybe not their fault but because this is so and who have been accustomed to.

conclude by advising the vision of this film to everyone, especially those not impressed by the blood. I recommend it to everyone but fans of the genre which might, in this mix of pure splatter combined with fear and tension, recover a bit 'of that quality in this old glories of the past and more recent works have not been able to emulate.
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