Colin Farrell

Pride and Glory - A Review

Source: moviewaffle (WordPress)

Colin Farrell – not the star (ostensibly), but knowing he’s the one who gets to threaten a baby with a steam iron – drinks the role of villain. Where Alexander left him limp and Miami Vice gave him a bad haircut, in Pride and Glory he’s f—in’ IRISH. He cries manful tears in at least two scenes; pun...

Published Sun, Nov 16

Has but four scenes

Source: Jennifer Ehle

Restoring the equilibrium again is blogger John at Cultural Affairs. Like an American Suze, he acknowledges the nays with the yays - but urges us to take our behinds off to view Pride and Glory anyway: I enjoyed it but it has this 'you seen it before' feeling while watching it. It's loaded with...

Published Sun, Nov 16

Pride and Glory - recensione

Source: bibicinema (WordPress)

Gavin O’Connor, orgoglioso erede di un agente dell’NYPD, scrive e dirige Pride and Glory, poliziesco presentato al Festival del Cinema di Roma e poco strombazzato a livello promozionale, nonostante il cast borioso (Edward Norton, Colin Farrell e John Voight) e una solida e convincen...

Published Wed, Nov 12

Blazin' Review: Pride & Glory

Source: movieblaze (WordPress)

The central trio shine and are simply the only thing that make this worth watching, lacking the polish of this years other very similarly themed film Street Kings, Pride & Glory succeeds in presenting us with yet another solid Norton performance (despite being very reminiscant...

Published Mon, Nov 10

Pride and Glory, a pleasant surprise with a poor end.

Source: 4rowsfromthefront (WordPress)

After many a Russian roulette movies with both John Voight, Edward Norton and Colin Farrell THEY were clearly given great direction and a script that allowed them to demonstrate they do more than take home fat pay checks. Brimming with great quotes that rather than being throw away gags co...

Published Sat, Nov 8

Film review: Pride and Glory

Source: The Guardian (UK)

Written, directed and largely performed by Irish-Americans, Gavin O'Connor's Pride and Glory is a gritty New York cop movie of the sort associated with Sidney Lumet, and turns on an Irish-American police family involved in a corruption scandal exposed when four cops are murdered in Br...

Published Sat, Nov 8

PRIDE AND GLORY

Source: phrenetical (WordPress)

There was one significant moment for me, relating to my personal interest in the two main actors, and I have to admit that it came as a complete surprise. My newfound interest in Edward Norton has been well-documented by me over the past year, but the fact has always remained that Colin Farre...

Published Thu, Nov 6

Film review: Pride and Glory

Source: The Guardian (UK)

Colin Farrell and Edward Norton star as New York City cops, part of an extended Irish-American clan for whom the NYPD is a family tradition. Jon Voight plays the grey-haired paterfamilias and top-ranking officer: a troubled authority figure at both the family home and the station house.

Published Thu, Nov 6