A foster mother to four adopted children gets killed in a store burglary, so they take it upon themselves to find out the murderer but discover other mysteries in the process.
As long as the action snaps and the violence feels (somewhat) righteous, there'll always be a place for movies such as Four Brothers -- on rainy Saturdays, on TNT.
Long Island Press
March 31, 2007
Adds a uniquely repugnant concept to the notion of dysfunctional, in what seems like a warped underlying fraternal creed of, a family that preys together stays together.
Goatdog's Movies
November 20, 2011
Feels like a nervous student's heavily footnoted thesis film.
If Four Brothers spent half as much energy making us feel something for its heroes as it spent making us feel nothing for their victims, it would be a far better, and far more engaging, film.
Four Brothers tries to mix the revenge quest with the drama of the four boys finding and learning about each other again. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.