Brothers

Year: 2009

Grade: B

Country: USA

Director: Sheridan

Review

looks like sheridan will soon have done more stuff in america than he has done in ireland. this one starts off a little slow and unsure of itself, but it gains steam all the way until the end. sometimes you watch a film and it really appears to have been filmed linearly in that the acting and everything else gets better as they do more of it. this is one of those films. at first the acting was either wooden or too animated; it just wasn’t right. as the film went on, though, the actors seemed to settle into their characters and the last scenes of each were their strongest. as for the plot, it’s another film about the uncounted costs of war. we all know the death toll and the economic toll, but the emotional one is easiest to overlook because it’s the hardest to quantify. worth watching.

Watched in theater