Wahlberg and Phoenix's 'We Own the Night' Gets a New Trailer
Filed under: Action, Drama, Cannes, Sony, Trailer Trash
A few months back Monika brought you some info on an international trailer for James Gray's crime thriller We Own the Night -- but now we've got a brand-new domestic trailer to check out ... and I'd say the flick looks pretty solid! (Maybe not all that startlingly original, but certainly something worth seeing.) Click here to check out the trailer at IGN Movies, and then take a second to wonder if Mark Wahlberg really likes playing a cop. (I'd say he does.)Based on what I saw in the promotional clip, We Own the Night is about two brothers: one a decent cop (Wahlberg) and the other a nightclub owner (Joaquin Phoenix) who (unwisely) gets involved with some big-time Russian drug dealers. Cue conflict. Also on board are (the fantastic) Robert Duvall as the patriarch and (the rather attractive) Eva Mendes as the worried girlfriend.
You may remember James Gray from The Yards and Little Odessa, both of which are definitely worth a rental some night. The film played the Cannes Film Festival a few months back, prompting Variety's Todd McCarthy to write the following: "Adequately acted and flecked with the required quota of action to satisfy genre fans, pic recalls numerous good police dramas of the 1970s, but mostly in superficial ways that bring nothing new to the table." Our own James Rocchi had this to say: "May feel curiously at odds with itself, but that doesn't necessarily make it a bad movie; if Gray's movie excels at one thing, it's how it takes the title phrase and makes a boast into something like a curse."
Sony looks poised to release Night on October 12.
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8-15-2007 @ 11:04AM
Austin said...
Looks great!
Joaquin is one of the best actors out there right now.
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8-21-2007 @ 8:16PM
Lola said...
Mark Wahlberg is totally awesome...but yeah, he does seem to have an odd redemption-like thing about playing cops, esp. considering his tough beginnings and various run-ins with real ones. This is gonna be a great movie; I can only pray it brings Mark an Oscar. How great would that be?!
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8-22-2007 @ 1:49AM
Julie said...
Very excited over this trailer. Joaquin Phoenix is the best actor out there period. He is just magnificent and was brilliant in The Yards too. I can't wait for this to come out, October 12 seems so far away!
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