A well-acted and tightly structured piece that would be more impactful if there weren’t a feeling that we’ve seen it before.
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11/07/08
Pride and Glory (2008)
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Reviews Counted:150
Fresh:51
Rotten:99
Average Rating:5.1/10
Consensus: Formulaic in its plotting and cliched in its dialogue, Pride and Glory does little to distinguish itself from other police procedurals.
Theatrical Release:07-11-2008
Synopsis: The son of a New York City police officer, Gavin O'Connor serves as director and co-screenwriter of this tale of family, loyalty, and corruption. The NYPD runs in the Tierney family's blood.... [More]
Starring: Edward Norton, Colin Farrell, Jon Voight, Noah Emmerich
Director: Gavin O'Connor
Reviews for Pride and Glory
Top CriticBloody, violent and increasingly derivative, ‘Pride and Glory’ betrays its initial promise as a small-scale, ‘Godfather’-esque social tapestry with crude plotting, variable acting and an all-too-guessable storyline and conclusion.
11/07/08
Top CriticSolid yet unremarkable, Pride And Glory will never win points for originality. With committed turns from Norton and Farrell, it does enough - just - to keep you interested. But this is one film that neither covers itself in pride or glory.
11/07/08
Top Criticthe decision to film Farrell and Norton climactically duking it out in a bar called Irish Eyes with diddle-di-deedle-di music playing on the jukebox is almost unforgiveable.
11/07/08
Top CriticA detonation of flatulent, macho-sentimental gibberish is what this ugly and violent film positively farts out of the screen at you.
11/07/08
Top CriticBut once the two of them fall to fisticuffs, the movie has revealed itself as a lumpy and generic business.
11/07/08
Top CriticBut, hackneyed, unconvincing and ultimately preposterous, Pride and Glory should be made to hand in its badge.
11/07/08
It doesn’t quite pack the wallop that O’Connor intended, a daft fight near the end may evoke laughs and it probably won’t be storming the Academy, but don’t be shocked if you enjoy this as much as Marty’s Oscar victor.
11/07/08
Here's an excruciatingly dated and derivative New York cop movie.
11/07/08
After similar but much better fare such as Martin Scorsese’s The Departed and The Wire TV series, we’ve come to expect an awful lot from our bent copper dramas and, while satisfactory, Pride And Glory just isn’t in the same league.
11/07/08
When Noah Emmerich, who plays Tierney’s NYPD brother, said “this s*** ends now”, the Sneak thought “glory be” – only for the story to drag on for another 20 minutes.
11/07/08
Pride and Glory is NYPD cop hokum, overcooked and undercharacterised. The time is out of joint, but in films such as this another joint is always to hand: ham.
11/07/08
This bad-apple cop drama is the kind of movie that Sidney Lumet used to make in the Seventies and Eighties, and it hasn't evolved a great deal since.
11/07/08
However skilful Gavin O’Connor is as a film-maker — and there are some striking sequences here — we’ve seen this corrupt cop thriller a hundred times before.
11/07/08
Watchable cop thriller with strong performances and suitably gritty direction, but the climax gets bogged down in some embarrassingly awful cliches.
11/07/08
Christmas is definitely cancelled in this over-acted, over-here movie. Presumably the tinsel was CGI'd in to complement the season of its release.
11/06/08
A familiar but taut thriller sparked by a quartet of committed lead performances and the visual acrobatics of stealth camera ace Declan Quinn.
09/15/08
Pride and Glory doesn't add anything to the generic crooked-cop procedural that we haven't seen with more verve in better movies.
08/30/09
This predictable police corruption story with an A-list cast explores themes of family and honesty as two cop brothers uncover the dirt on their brother-in-law's violent activity, while senior cop Dad tries to keep things under control.
03/21/09
Uma pena que o filme jamais consiga escapar realmente do lugar comum, implodindo de vez em seu terrível terceiro ato.
02/27/09
Latest News for Pride and Glory
January 17, 2009:
Pride And Glory is anything but. And though rife with brutality and cynicism way too over the top to make sense of it all, the journey there stings with a raw and devastating emotional power. Abu Graib in Washington Heights meets Godfather in blue. 
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January 17, 2009:
Pride And Glory is anything but. And though rife with brutality and cynicism way too over the top to make sense of it all, the journey there stings with a raw and devastating emotional power. Abu Graib in Washington Heights meets Godfather in blue.
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November 07, 2008:
UK Critics Consensus: Was W. Wicked? Is Pride & Glory Proud and Glorious?
This week in the UK cinemas we have Oliver Stones latest presidential dissection, the George W. Bush biopic W. with Josh Brolin in the title role. Also out is Pride & Glory, a... More...
October 27, 2008:
Honest cop tested by Blue Wall of Silence in gritty NYC crime saga.
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