Brothers (2024)

Brothers (2024)

 

6/10

Starring          

Josh Brolin

Peter Dinklage

Brendan Fraser

Glenn Close

 

Directed by Max Barbakow

 

One thing this movie has is the engaging factor. I must be honest – it is written in a way to leave you wanting to see how things will line up. What I mean by line up is. Instead of the urge to see how things will end, how the brothers will find a way to make amends and get ahead, you are held by the many missing blocks.

What happened to their mum?

The mum’s boyfriend who swallowed the emerald, how did that play out?

What weird thing was the beautiful and forever gorgeous Marisa Tomei cameo appearance into?

And how were the brothers going to deal with the cop chasing them?

Some matters, like the last one was not well tied up, and the movie had some incidents that will make you go, hmm!!! But in the end, it made for a good time, and I enjoyed holding out to the end to see how the things lined up.

The cast in this movie were excellent, and I hardly recognised Glenn Close.

The plot is about two twin brothers, Moke (Josh Brolin) and Jady (Peter Dinklage). You can already see how the difference in height gives you the Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny De Vito feel, but the movie is nothing like that. These two brothers grew up as thieves, their mother (Glenn Close) was an armed robber and both brothers were just petty thieves when she left. During one of their heists, Jady got caught. He did not rat out Moke (something the movie does not really touch on), but Moke went on to turn his life around and try to be a better person after the incident. Jady got out early, and this was due to the assistance of a corrupt officer, Farful (Brendan Fraser). They had a deal, Farful will help Jady get out of prison with the aid of Farful’s dad who was a judge and he in return will do a job for them. As you can guess, Jady went to Moke and convinced him to help him out to carry out this last task. It was from there, Moke learned that Jady was in touch with their mother all these times, and they were running their own game and needed him.

How the family was able to iron things out and sort out their differences to get on top of the situation, well you will need to watch this movie on Amazon Prime to find out. Just note, it is not a masterful comedy, just a good enough movie to see when you have little or nothing else to watch.