Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Brothers (2009)

This movie was a lot better and a lot different than the trailers made it seem. It took the basic "soldier has troubling readjusting to civilian life" plotline and turned it just a little bit to make it more interesting.

Captain Sam Cahill (Tobey Magurie) is about to go back to Afghanistan for his next tour of duty. As he gets ready to say goodbye to his wife, Grace (Natalie Portman), and family, he must also pick up his brother, Tomy (Jake Gyllenhaal), who is released from prison. Grace and Tommy never got along and Tommy is the blacksheep of the family. While flying along the Afghani countryside, Sam's helicopter crashes and the soldier is presumed dead. Tommy takes it upon himself to try and right things with Grace and his family by helping her raise the two daughters Sam left behind. Months have passed and, seemingly out of the blue, Sam is alive. Now that he's back, he isn't the same and won't let anyone in to find out why.

Maguire plays the older brother yet looks younger than Gyllenhaal in real life...despite being five years older than him. Regardless, I enjoyed this movie a lot more than I thought I would. The trailers and commercials made this out to be a movie that it wasn't. It didn't even reach the peaks the trailers made it look like it would. It was a very good plot with some good performances.

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