a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

.Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Good acting, very realistically portrayal of police brutality, but the story is too predictable and has too many flaws and slow downs to make it stand out as something special."Pride and Glory" is made with attention to detail. It is not bad, but not original either. Frustratingly mediocre. I did see this movie before, but it was totally erased from my memory. And after watching it again, I suddenly understood WHY I had totally forgotten about it, because it has every cop cliche in it. I never got really thrilled, only the beginning was interesting, thanks to Edward Norton's role in this movie. He is great and saves this movie. The story of this movie is about a number of cops that turned criminal, one of them played by Collin Farrell. Edward Norton and John Voight are the other 2 family members and they act excellently. Really great. BUT the movie unfortunately stretches well over 2 hours and I guess almost half an hour is solely about family visits and birthdays. Just half an hour of nothing else but watching birthday parties and listening to family members chatting about diseases in the family. These attempts to give the characters more context by showing those family birthdays and showing these sick family members are to be admired but unfortunately all this family stuff just slows down this copmovie. I skipped these family scenes and when I start skipping scnenes I know deep down that the movie has lost its edge...I am left with a bland feeling of frustration. It could have been a lot better. But it wasnt. Acting is great though, but sometimes I wished I wouldnt get lured into watching these cliche police stories because of the great actors in it. Because without an original thrilling story the best acting cant save it from going under...

Pride & Glory is a gritty police melodrama that grabs the audience, shakes them till the point of concussion and wrings the life out of them with it's nonstop intensity and performances that could raise buildings to the ground. Think I'm exaggerating or overselling? Give it a go, it's fucking nuts. NYC cop dramas are a common occurrence out there, and have been for a long while, but something about this one just rings eerily true, rattles your cage and lets both the violence and corruption seep into the marrow of one's viewing experience. After a drug deal erupts into multiple murder, a family of cops is thrown in an uproar. Haggard straight arrow Edward Norton is on point of investigation by boozy patriarch Jon Voight, and ends up finding out way more than he bargained for not only in regards to the NYPD, but about his fellow cop brother (Colin Farrell) too. Their third brother (underrated Noah Emmerich) is too busy taking care of his sick wife (Jennifer Ehle) to notice the corruption, or maybe does and looks the other way. Every faction adds to the pressure cooker of an atmosphere, rooted in the familial relationships that can't withstand dangerous secrets. They should call the guy Colin Feral, because he's a right beast as a guy whose moral compass is so out of whack he doesn't know who he is anymore. The actor is fervently complex in his work, and makes the guy way more human than other performers would, but he's still terrifying, whether threatening a newborn baby with a hot iron or full on brawling with Norton in a fracas of a man to man bar-fight. Voight is one of those characters who is so corrupt he doesn't even notice it anymore, which is a dangerous avenue to arrive at when you're in such a position of power. The supporting cast is pockmarked with fiery work from terrific actors including super underrated Carmen Ejogo, Wayne Duvall, John Ortiz, Lake Bell and two arresting turns from reliable firebrands Frank Grillo and Shea Wigham. Built around a script by Joe Carnahan, who feeds off of authentic dialogue and realistic shaping of events, this is one that pulls you right into it's suffocating world of beleaguered sentinels of law enforcement whose eyes have become dim to that thin blue line separating order and madness. Brilliant, heavy stuff.

(Originally reviewed: 13/03/2017) What could have been a serviceable police corruption drama; ended up as a forgettable, clichéd picture with a truly laughably bad last quarter of an hour. The picture is all too familiar with its crooked cops theme, but as well as being fairly predictable until the end, there is a lack of substance; but however there are things I liked and there are some good moments which include Gavin O'Connor's direction's which is fairly decent.Edward Norton (Ray Tierney) play's an honest cop with a bad past; he re-joins the big boy work; as missing persons is allegedly not worth his class, which is said by his father played by Jon Voight, who is higher up in the police chain and has an embarrassingly cringe-worthily sequence where he is drunk at a Christmas family gathering and rambles on spurting some cheesy dialogue and making the other people at the table rather uncomfortable; clearly not a good idea; but the screenwriters thought otherwise; Ray's good friend, also an officer played by Colin Farrell (Jimmy Egan) is the dirty cop and his corruption knows no bounds; which will likely disgust viewers as it did myself seeing him hold an iron to a baby's head; which is crass, over the top and in bad taste. Noah Emmerich (Francis Tierney) is Ray's brother and is also involved in this corruption and though he says he has never talk a dime; he's pretty much part of it, as he's happy to help cover up there debauchery and he overacts rather badly in key scenes; always shouting, and overplaying scenes that do not require such a presence and other corrupt cop's include John Ortiz who play's Ruben Santiago, a cop who at least acknowledges what he has done and is ashamed of it, and isn't too bad but then there's Shea Whigham who plays a similar scumbag to Farrell's character and is not really that compelling and just like the rest of the corrupt officer's, but at least Farrell doesn't embarrass himself in every sequence, just most. Norton; the honest man, gives the best performance, extremely solid with his emotions and calmness and tries to make the story more compelling than it actually is and there are some actresses that are watchable like Lake Bell (Megan Egan) and Jennifer Ehle as Abby Tierney; however not sure why they needed to involve a cancer theme where one of the corrupt officers wives is dying and it uses plenty of melodramatics to try and justify their corruption which was well and truly a desperate tactic on behalf of the writers. There's awful dialogue too, such as Farrell's character trying to act tough and says to a fellow criminal "I'll come back, kill you, f**k your wife and kill the kid; which will have anyone hoping that someone shoots him before he does and there's gritty and unpleasant; this picture has both but more of an unpleasant feel which is one of its many problems. Sure there's some decent dialogue like a quote from Voight who say's "40 years of stuff like this happening, we keep the rage and lose everything else" which went something along those lines, and during the first 45 minutes or so it's decent for the most part, but everything after goes on a downhill slide, which leads me to the horrible conclusion where one cop, kills a clerk because he's broke and when the situation doesn't go as planned, the other cop run's in and shoot's an innocent man and holds the clerk hostage which was so silly and pathetic it had me hoping for the finish.Then Norton's character who finds out what's happened drive's down to the incident, takes a detour to a bar where Farrell is and tells him to drop his gun, an Irish instrumental song comes on, kind of an insult considering the Irish nationals on screen and they start a fist fight that becomes laughably horrendous, and then after cuffing him, they go outside and you have your usual cliché; the thug who's child he threatened earlier has a gang out there, for which you can guess the ending, and it's a stupid, pointless sequence which only made me dislike this picture even more; Pride and Glory is formulaic, the tone and the look may be appropriate but it's constant clichés, unpleasantness and atrocious finale get the better of it's; this is a forgettable police thriller and a bad one at that.

Four NYPD cops are down in a drug bust gone wrong. Ray Tierney (Edward Norton) heads the investigation. It's what his father ex-cop brass Francis Sr (Jon Voight) wants. The four are his brother Francis Jr (Noah Emmerich)'s men. As Ray digs, he finds corruption in the department that has entangled his family. Jimmy Egan (Colin Farrell) is his brother-in-law who leads a group of corrupted cops.It's a gritty crime drama with lots of top notch acting talents. The acting is good, but there is nothing here that is new or surprising. Writer/director Gavin O'Connor has infused this movie with a grimy messy style. The tone is dark. The story is a little bit confused with a few too many characters' POV and is also somewhat formulaic. It's a movie that has been done better elsewhere.