This surely is a late review, but I need to do this. This is a movie that had the potential of being great, but at the same time had the potential to suck. Luckily, it didn't suck. It was very good. We'll get to this in a bit though.
'Brothers' is the next movie in a long line of war flicks. Although it's nowhere near as good as the recent war film 'The Hurt Locker', both movies do the same thing. They both put the viewer in tense, practical situations. 'The Hurt Locker', hypothetically, physically puts you in the day-to-day life of a bomb defusing soldier. 'Brothers' poses the 'what would you do..' or 'how would you react..' type situations. The three main characters (Tobey Maguire, Jake Gyllenhal, Natalie Portman) all do a great job of embodying these situational emotions. I can't tell you what those situations are, as to avoid spoiler alerts galore, but you'll know what I'm talking about when you see it.
Wait. Rewind. You may not know what this movie is about. My bad.
'Brothers' is about a family with ties in the war. Sam Cahill (Maguire) ships off to war and leaves his wife (Portman), kids, parents, and slumping brother (Gyllenhal) behind. Once the family learns that sam was 'killed', Gyllenhal steps in to ease the grieving. But Sam isn't really dead we come to learn. He's been captured. He eventually returns home, but nothing is the same. He can't relax or take a joke, and now he has suspicions that Gyllenhal's character slept with his wife. This obviously draws a huge division amongst the family, and eventually tempers come to a boil as things reach their ultimate level of secrecy.
This movie kind of ends on a flat note for me, but for most of the movie I was very much into everything that was going on, because of the emotions that this movie drew out of me. The frontline acting was very good and it really made me believe that this may actually happen in some homes across the world. The acting enough is worth seeing, but the story has more to it then you may expect. Go see it if you haven't already
Rating: 3 out of 4 stars
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