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movie review - Four Brothers

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

This is a movie about four adopted brothers who re-unite to bury their mother who was gunned down in a robbery. They come to suspect that the robbery wasn't what it appeared, and try to work out whether there was a motive. It's very uneven, unfortunately, careening between different tones and seemingly strung together from different edits of a single story that were shuffled after a major rewrite. OK I'm not making a tonne of sense here but neither does this movie. It's as if a Western was updated but they didn't notice that you can't gun down half the town without someone coming around to investigate. You can't flash a big gun in public. You can't .. well, behave like these characters did.

Not recommended.