Four Brothers

Four Brothers  - John singleton directed one of the greatest movies in my eyes, this movie is about 4 brothers who are all adopted by the same woman, the reason she had adopted so many boys is that she was a foster mother and who prepared children to go to their forever homes and spend their lives with new families however she came across 4 young men who were so far gone and naughty that she couldn't find nobody to re-home them so she adopted them herself and brought them up to be gentlemen.

The films main plot line is about how the brothers lose their mother to a store robbery only to find out later on in the movie the reason their mother was murdered wasn't just wrong place wrong time, The killers were actually hired by a mob boss so one of her sons would change his mind and make him go into business with him.

The main characters are Four Brothers Bobby Mercer(Mark Wahlberg), Angel mercer(Tyrese Gibson), Jerry Mercer(Andre 3000) and Jack Mercer(Garrett Hedlund) are played amazingly well the actor who plays Jack Mercer Hits the ball out of the park when doing his lead scene unfortunately it does end in him dying but the acting in this scene is superb its really moving and intense almost like you're part of the shoot out that's happening.

Casting/stardom,

Mark wahlberg was and still is a pretty huge actor on the go in this present day, he has such a diverse catalog of movies, some of his movies range from really serious action movies to daft funny comedies. Some movies Mark has been in even though the movie is rather a comedy or a romantic movie, he is still sort of portrayed in a manly man role, this usually happens when you portray brilliant in one style of acting it usually sticks with you for the rest of your career.

Even though Mark is such a talented actor unfortunately he started his career rapping which wasn't to great. Thank god he chose to follow his acting career  instead of choosing his rapping career, which i think everyone is pretty grateful.

Tyrese Gibson has more recently became a bigger actor with his roles in the fast and furious saga, which he plays a loveable goofy hardman who has pretty much all the decent funny parts all the way through these movies. Tyrese also became famous from a musical career and then followed his dream into acting. I personally am glad he made this transition because i enjoy his characters in most of the movies he is in.

Andre 3000 started his career with a huge music career in a band named Outkast. Even though he played his part well in 4 brothers i personally don't think he is a great actor, i think he should of stayed a music artist and excelled in his music career instead of trying to take up his role in acting.

Garrett hedlund played such an amazing part in 4 brothers but never really hit it big like the rest of the cast, all the movies which he followed up from 4 brothers he never really played major roles, he has been in movies since but has never really landed a role as big as what he played in 4 brothers.

The genre of this movie is a gritty on the edge of your seat action film, 4 brothers has none stop action from start to finish, this movie will be categorised in the genre with other movies such as get rich or die trying and xXx and many more movies,

Each character has a role in the movie.

Bobby Mercer is the family hard case who can really handle himself and his well known by the police and the local gangsters in the local town, bobby takes the leader role in the brothers and pretty much calls the shots of what everyone else is doing.

Angel Mercer is the family playboy Angel spends more of his time trying to get back with his high school crush and ends up getting chased down the street with a man shooting at him as he runs through the streets in just his underwear. Angel also tries to play a hard man but he doesn't pull it off as well as what his brother bobby does and i think he knows that deep down.

Jack Mercer is the youngest of the 4 brothers more of a rock-star wannabe than gangster but does not take any attitude from anyone always tries to fight his corner and always wants to be involved with trouble, he does get a little scared when he sees his brothers shoot the hired murderers who kill their mother.  

Jerry Mercer is the family wimp, he always wants to avoid the trouble and always ends up pulling away to do family duties just before things get down and heavy the problem with jerry mercer is it turns out it's his own fault that his mother gets killed by hired hit-men, because of a business idea that went sour with the main gangster Victor Sweet.

When talking and reviewing movies one of the main things to always talk about is how the soundtrack of the movie fits, in this case i personally think it's a slight twist using a slow calm song for such a pumped up action movie with a lot of murders all the way through the movie.

Not only does the soundtrack have to be perfect it has to be a perfect selection of music all the way through the movie. The great thing about the music running through movies is it adds a lot of emotion to the scenes of what is happening in the movie.

For example in this movie when The brothers arrive back at the house, they are still acting pretty manly between one another, when they all separate and go to their bedrooms it shows them all sobbing and crying, They use Wish It Would Rain by the temptations, to me this adds a lot of emotion to this one scene just purely because the lyrics state, even if i am a man i'm still allowed to cry to soothe my pain.