Director Gavin O'Connor and co-screenwriter Joe Carnahan take a perfectly fine B-movie premise and slow it down to an A-movie pace; in the process, they remove the juice that keeps a story like this honest.
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10/24/08
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
The bristling New York cop movie Pride and Glory boasts more than A+ street smarts. It overflows with a combustible blend of street sensitivity and testosterone.
10/24/08
To paraphrase Yogi Berra, "Pride and Glory" is deja vu all over again.
10/24/08
We've seen this movie about corrupt cops and the families they take down a thousand times before, but rarely has it been so bafflingly inept in its execution.
10/24/08
this is the kind of ridiculously routine by-the-number police procedural that is available on TV for free every week and the sight of such talented actors following in lockstep to such a familiar narrative is almost too depressing to comprehend.
10/24/08
"Every cop is a criminal, and all the sinners' saints" Yep, the Stones called this one right.
10/24/08
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10/24/08
There's nothing wrong with a gritty cop drama, so long as it has something to offer besides grit.
10/24/08
Pride and Glory is your standard dirty cop movie with Edward Norton pulling off a great performance while Colin Farrell completely over acts.
10/24/08
Over-used clichés like a slow-motion funeral procession in the snow and over-used dialogue like "You got no idea what it takes to do what we do." Now that's a crime.
10/24/08
[Gavin] O'Connor never captures the edge of danger, anger and moral stands being ground up in compromise.
10/23/08
Pride and Glory remains gripping despite offering little more than what you can catch on the latest CSI. But if you prefer your escapism bleak, here's pay dirt.
10/23/08
Pride and Glory definitely stirs up some drama. But the script doesn't serve the drama well.
10/23/08
The moral decay of movies as evidenced by increased and wholly gratuitous violence against children finds a logical, sorry bottom in Pride and Glory.
10/23/08
Pride and Glory would be risible if it weren't so reprehensible.
10/23/08
Whatever points Pride and Glory was trying to make have been buried beneath layers of clumsy, good-vs.-bad posturings and peppered with R-rated language that's clearly supposed to remind us of films like The Departed.
10/23/08
Pride And Glory would have felt second-hand and overly familiar even if it were greenlit in 1937 as a vehicle for Humphrey Bogart and Edward G. Robinson.
10/23/08
May be mediocre for its first 100 minutes, but it falls completely apart in a climax that is overwrought, silly, and damagingly misdirected.
10/23/08
A superlative demonstration of a brotherhood-of-the-badge stranglehold, rooting itself in outstanding character composition to alleviate the worry of cliché. It's a wonderfully compelling drama, bruised to near-perfection.
10/23/08
Dull, predictable, ugly, filled with bad or lackluster performances, contains objectionable racial material and just generally lacking in anything worthwhile. One of the worst movies of the year.
10/23/08
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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