The Worst Film Ever

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

Excellent adaptation.

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

I was very underwhelmed by the lack of direction on this film. With such a low budget of $30Mil, especially for that era's films (made about 10 years ago), it has a terrific cast. However, it has a very meandering script; the director really doesn't seem to know what he wants it to be about. In the "making of featurette" on the Bluray disc (which is over an hour long), Colin Farrell is quite noticeably absent; his name is only mentioned once, and he is never interviewed or shown. That struck me as very odd. The only reason I could think of was it had something to do with the legal department. I will give props to the director for truly wanting to make an authentic film about the NYPD; however, I do not believe he succeeded. I would not see it again, nor would I recommend it. I think "We Own The Night" is a much better film about the NYPD.

"Pride And Glory" is yet another entry in the archetypal cop-family saga. Yet this film manages to set itself apart (in my opinion) through some fine central acting work from the likes of Edward Norton & Colin Farrell. The latter is absolutely chilling in his performance as Jimmy Egan; he brings a raw mix of rage, fear, and desperation into his character's performance that shines through in this grim tale. I doubted Farrell's competency as an actor greatly... and then I saw this film. Norton tackles his role as the reluctant, back-again detective Ray Tierney with the same passion and gusto he brings into all his roles. Jon Voight does some commendable work as the family patriarch/police chief trying to hold his family & department together, but his performance isn't all that notable. The same can be said of the rest of the cast who (in some scenes) shine, but for the most part stay in the background. I liked "Pride And Glory" for the simple fact that it was a film that knew what it was, and did its best to tell its story without venturing off into uncharacteristic territories. This is a cop movie done right, and in the vast sea of police drama films that is certainly saying something!

Such a great cast. Some intense individual performances. If this were the type of movie that could be made or broken by its cast it would be a classic. Unfortunately that's not the case.The movie starts off and sets a high bar. At a cops vs. detectives rival football game we learn about a 10-13 -- four officers have been killed. A number of story-lines converge to create a number of potentially explosive relationships. But about 30 minutes in, the whole rhythm of the film just about falls flat. The good pursue the truth with tireless effort, but not much personal conflict; while the bad stay one step ahead trying to tie up their loose ends.I found the story and this world of police corruption pretty fascinating, but the angle taken to pursue it--the burnt out cop getting back in the game, played by Ed Norton--pretty cliché and not dynamic. Norton is great, but his character doesn't have any particular traits to make him interesting or memorable, or in conflict with himself. In fact the only character I thought interesting, other than Voigt as a father of two cops, and Maximiliano Hernandez as an interesting journalist but arriving too late, was Farrell as the trouble-making cop welcomed into the honest family. That character alone stands on a pedestal and makes the picture interesting. But without a heavyweight counterpart to punch back with his own personal cause, e.g. Norton's character, Farrell can't raise the bar back to the heights of the first scene at the football game, where the story promised an intimate clash of one side versus another.

Edward Norton, Colin Farrell, Jon Voight and Noah Emmerich star in a gritty, tension-packed tale of a multi-generational family of cops facing hard realities and tough choices in this movie entitled,Pride And Glory.Director Gavin O'Connor collaborates with screenwriter Joe Carnahan on this family-focused police drama concerning an honest homicide detective assigned to investigate the precinct run by his potentially crooked older brother and as the investigation begins to reveal some troubling facts about the precinct, it gradually becomes apparent that the policeman who is also the older brother's best friend may be the man orchestrating many of the suspected crimes.Pride and Glory is more than just lousy for it's an amalgam of every bad tendency of the current cinema, stitched together into a single monstrosity of a cop movie.The only saving grace is Edward Norton, whose mere presence raises the level of a film several notches.