We Own the Night
It's the sort of thing that could change things for Bobby Greene and the manager of the hottest Gotham clubs. Behind the scenes, it seems that everything will be very secret when Bobbi condones surveillance of criminal activities. Maybe it will be very dangerous when Bobby is a target for dangerous criminals in the city if his dangerous information is revealed.
5 June 1971, Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
3 August 1974, Medellin, Colombia
23 May 1974, Brooklyn, New York, USA
28 August 1980, New York City, New York, USA
9 January 1968, Long Island, New York City, New York, USA
29 March 1946, Brooklyn, New York, USA
24 February 1947, Neustrelitz, East Germany
3 April 1938, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
25 July 1983, Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
1 April 1986, Brooklyn, New York, USA
October 18, 2008
A generic thriller that aims for deeper resonance, We Own The Night is an intriguing feature, undermined by a plot that stretches credulity, yet which still manages to conform to predictable gangster flick cliché.
July 22, 2008
Although We Own the Night is never as suspenseful as it wants to be and can be a little formulaic, it never comes close to being boring, and that's something you can't say too often about movies these days.
July 06, 2010
This is a man's movie: gritty, macho, and lacking in grace.
December 13, 2007
A desperate violence and urgency spills out in the film's flash-point set-pieces - not least a sensational car chase, shot through a windscreen, hammering rain and a blur of fear.
July 06, 2010
Director-writer James Gray makes it all seem more urgent than it has any right to feel, because he knows how to make tense, violent dramas that are soaking in mood.
October 20, 2007
As flat-footed as writer-director James Gray's script often sounds, his cops-vs.-mob tale can be strangely mesmerizing.
October 18, 2008
It's not surprising, but it's engaging enough that most patrons will likely cut the director some slack for the out-of-period details and convoluted plot contrivances that make the film seem at once sloppy and too neat.
December 20, 2009
If We Own the Night is flawed and somewhat choppy, it served notice that Gray, once he refined his technique, would be a force to be reckoned with in the cinema world.
January 18, 2008
[Gray's] feel for dialogue has rarely failed him, and it doesn't here.
October 20, 2007
Time will tell, but from where I'm sitting this deceptively routine cop movie runs deep. In fact, it already looks like a classic. Cagney and Tracy would be proud.
July 06, 2010
An intriguing blend of mainstream audience-pleaser and a more subtle, even intellectual agenda.
