"We Own The Night"

[Guest daisho2004]

OK I got to watch this movie last night and it was a good Crime Drama some good Action scenes, but just to see Eva Mendes playing with herself in the 1st. few minutes of the film was worth it all by itself. OK enough of that! I really don't want to give all that much away about how the story takes a drastic turn of events, which you kinda knew was going to happen. Overall a good movie.

SYNOPSIS:

Bobby Green (Joaquin Phoenix) has turned his back on the family business. The popular manager of El Caribe, the legendary Russian-owned nightclub in Brooklyn’s Brighton Beach, he has changed his last name and concealed his connection to a long line of distinguished New York cops. For Bobby, every night is a party, as he greets friends and customers or dances with his beautiful Puerto Rican girlfriend, Amada (Eva Mendes), in a haze of cigarette smoke and disco music.

But it’s 1988, and New York City’s drug trade is escalating. Bobby tries to keep a friendly distance from the Russian gangster who is operating out of the nightclub – a gangster who is being targeted by his brother, Joseph (Mark Wahlberg), an up-and-coming NYPD Captain, and his father, Burt (Robert Duvall), the legendary deputy chief of police.

We Own the Night, an emotional crime drama about a man who has chosen to hide his past only to discover that he has to confront an inevitable future, takes its title from the motto of the 1980s-era NYPD street crimes unit. Written and directed by James Gray (The Yards, Little Odessa).