Four brothers
| Movie | |
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| German title | Four brothers |
| Original title | Four brothers |
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| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2005 |
| length | 109 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | John Singleton |
| script |
David Elliot , Paul Lovett |
| production | Lorenzo di Bonaventura |
| music | David Arnold |
| camera | Peter Menzies Jr. |
| cut |
Bruce Cannon Billy Fox |
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Four Brothers ( Four Brothers ) is an American action - drama from 2005 . The film is a very personal remake of the 1965 western The Four Sons of Katie Elder, directed by Henry Hathaway .
action
The four brothers Bobby, Angel, Jeremiah and Jack meet again at the funeral of their adoptive mother Evelyn, who was apparently accidentally murdered during a robbery on a grocery store. They came from difficult backgrounds and Evelyn was their only chance to get out of the children's home.
The film begins with a performance by the police officer Green, who introduces all four brothers to his partner Fowler. At the funeral ceremony, both police officers persuade the brothers that the investigation of the attack is a matter for the police and that the brothers should stay out of the matter.
Despite this announcement, all four begin to investigate, especially spurred on by Bobby. It quickly turns out that the attack was just a cover and the murder of her mother was planned. A very high insurance policy should be paid out to Jeremiah in the event of the mother's death. Angel finds out that Jeremiah had a company that went broke. The three brothers suspect him to have something to do with the death of his mother, since he has also got involved with the gangster Victor Sweet. Jeremiah angrily explains to them that Victor Sweet wanted to get involved in building his company; but after ruling out this, he was denied all necessary credits. At a town councilor, Bobby and Jack learn that Sweet was behind the refusal of the loan and that her mother tried to take action against him. She was also with the police and filed a complaint against Victor Sweet at Fowler. At the same time, Green also finds out that Evelyn had talked to Fowler for more than an hour, which Fowler had not stated during the investigation.
Victor Sweet puts hired contract killers on the four brothers. The youngest brother Jack is killed in a shootout, and the contract killers are also shot. Green makes the whole thing look like a "blatant case of self-defense ". He and Bobby meet, with Green trying to stop Bobby in his vigilante justice. He explains that he wants to stop a corrupt cop first and then he wants to take on Sweet.
In a billiard club run by gangster Victor Sweet, Green speaks to his colleague Fowler about meeting Evelyn Mercer, but he lies to him about the content and scope of the conversation. Green recognizes Fowler's corruption and then knocks him down with a cue , but before Green gets to his car when leaving the club, he is shot by Fowler and dies.
Jeremiah now proposes to hand over the life insurance money to Sweet and to demand that the three remaining brothers be left alone. Sweet agrees, but all three are aware that they need a pledge. Meanwhile, Angel assaults the corrupt cop Fowler and arrests him. Angel's girlfriend then goes to the police and explains there that her boyfriend wants to kill a police officer, whereupon they surround Fowler's house in a large-scale operation.
Jeremiah is picked up by Sweets subordinates and driven onto a frozen lake. When Sweet is happy that so much money has been delivered to him and he only needs to dispose of the messenger, his people suddenly rebel against him. Jeremiah had given them the money, citing old days in the union, if they turned against their irascible and totalitarian boss. In a boxing match between Sweet and Bobby, Sweet is defeated, and they then throw him into a previously cut ice hole in the frozen lake that was actually intended for Jeremiah.
Meanwhile, Angel engages Fowler in a conversation in which he admits the murder of his colleague Green. Angel pretends that he is wired to the local police and that everyone can overhear and underscores this with a hidden microphone. Fowler then overpowers Angel and wants to work his way past the irritated police officers who have surrounded the house with him as a hostage. Since he does not respond to their calls to release the hostage, he is shot. All three brothers are soon at the police station and are supposed to be beaten to testify there. The police cannot prove anything and therefore have to let them go.
In the final scene, Bobby, Angel, and Jeremiah Mercer are renovating their late adoptive mother's house. Bobby appears to his adoptive mother in a vision; she asks him if he will stay longer this time, to which he replies that he is thinking about it.
criticism
“A big city western with a familiar constellation of characters and action scenes that are reminiscent of vigilante films from the 1970s. The direction pushes the story of revenge forward in a straightforward and not very subtle way, whereby they are only interested in the genre patterns. "
"With grim humor and a sense of atmosphere, John Singleton (" Shaft - Any Questions? ") Staged the action- and suspense-packed detective film remake of the John Wayne western classic" The Four Sons of Katie Elder . "
"" Four Brothers "looks like a genuine 70s gangster film, but it is set in the present - and is by the way the first blaxploitation movie with a white hero. That has charm, which is further promoted by the atmospheric funk and soul soundtrack. John Singleton succeeded in creating a debatable, highly exciting urban "western" that is less based on realism - because that is very limited - than on atmosphere and style. "
Awards
Director John Singleton won an Image Award .
Web links
- Four brothers in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Four Brothers at rotten tomatoes (English)
- Four Brothers at Metacritic (English)
- Four brothers in the online film database
- Four brothers in the German dubbing file
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for Four Brothers . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2005 (PDF; test number: 103 316 K).
- ↑ Four brothers. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 22, 2017 .
- ↑ Criticism on kino.de
- ^ Review on Filmstarts.de