BROTHERS (AMAZON PRIME) (2024)






SYNOPSIS
: Brothers tells the story of a reformed criminal (Josh Brolin) whose attempt at going straight is derailed when he reunites with his sanity-testing twin brother (Peter Dinklage) on a cross-country road trip for the score of a lifetime. Dodging bullets, the law, and an overbearing mother along the way, they must heal their severed family bond before they end up killing each other.

MOVIE REVIEW:

For a comedy starring Josh Brolin, Peter Dinklage, Glenn Close, Academy Award winners Brendan Fraser and Marisa Tomei, Brothers is officially to us the unfunniest comedy of the year and we still have two more months before the year ends.

Moke (Brolin) and his twinsie, Jady (Dinklage) leads a criminal life after their mom left them after committing a robbery. After Jady is being thrown into prison, Moke turns over a new life and settles down with a wife, Abby (Taylour Paige) who is currently pregnant.

Years later, Jady is released from prison and he proposed to Jady to work together to recover their mother’s abandoned stash. Also thrown into the mayhem is a crooked prison guard named Farful played by Fraser, the boys’ double-crossing mother played by Close and Jady’s supposedly old flame played by Tomei.

The comedy is written by Etan Cohen, the man responsible for one of the best comedies of all time, Tropic Thunder and also turds liked Get Hard and Holmes & Watson. The supposedly non-stop bickering between the siblings are supposed to be rib-tickling but nothing really stands out besides a joke about Wolf Man and Dracula.

The wacky but unnecessary physical comedy like Moke falling and hitting onto a car adds nothing to an already strained premise. Most of the time, the road trip offers tired, sub-standard laughs to justify for the comedy factors. End of the day, even an action chase on a golf course looks desperate.

Brolin and Dinklage tried their very best to be a pair of squabbling siblings. Jady is the manipulative one while Moke craves for family bonding and a mother’s love. At least, their performances are serviceable. Fraser on the other hand is wasted as a psychotic cop with daddy issues. Let’s hope it’s not affecting his second acting resurgence.

Brothers is a slapstick gone wrong for sure. With the exception of a very crude CGI orangutan, you can entirely forget about the existence of this shoddy mess.

MOVIE RATING:

Review by Linus Tee



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 ABOUT THE MOVIE

Genre: Crime/Comedy
Starring: 
Josh Brolin, Peter Dinklage, Glenn Close, Marisa Tomei, Taylour Paige, M. Emmet Walsh, Jennifer Landon
Director: Max Barbakow
Rating: NC16 
Year Made: 2024

 

 TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Languages: English
Subtitles: English
Running Time: 1 hr 29 mins