Pride And Glory (DVD) Reviews

This 2008 film starring Colin Firth and Edward Norton was most definitely mediocre. The title doesn't give too much away about the plot, but essentially it is about a family: 2 brothers, 1 dad and a brother in law who are all in the police. The brother in law is not exactly on the straight and narrow and is mixed up in all sorts of underworld ...  Read the complete review

Gavin O'Connor directs this action drama PRIDE AND GLORY. The film centres on a family of police officers whose loyalty is in question over an investigation. When Edward Norton's character Ray, a police officer is called to follow up a bungled drugs ambush in which four officers have been killed he suspects something is up. Ray believes ...  Read the complete review

On the one hand this film has a lot to offer: Colin Firth and Edward Norton are two of the best actors around at the moment, and here they team up together. I should have known something was wrong when I saw the plot: basically it all revolves around a police officer investigating a crime and finding his brother in law is mixed up in ...  Read the complete review

This is a 15 rated police drama that runs for two hours and contains some strong language and scenes of graphic violence. This film is centred around four NYPD police officers: two brothers Ray Tierney (Edward Norton) and Fran Tierney Jnr (Noah Emmerich), the brother-in-law Jimmy Eagan (Colin Farrell) and the father Fran Tierney Snr ...  Read the complete review

Pride and Glory is an intriguing and well made cop thriller about police brutality and corruption. It has an impressive cast list that delivers on what it a tough and convoluted plot, presented in an overly long 2 hours of film. Chief Tierney (John Voight) is proud of his two boys Ray (Ed Norton) and Frannie (Noah Emmerich). When son in ...  Read the complete review

Pride and Glory was among the many films that became caught up in the Writers Strike of 2008-2009, and was further mired by the collapse of New Line Cinema last year, meaning that its Oscar campaign was toned down, and the film recieved a fairly minimal release. Sadly, its Oscar claims were overstated, and while it had that potential, it's merely ...  Read the complete review

It's a very impressive cast of Edward Notorn, Colin Farrell and John Voight that team up to make a somewhat pedestrian police corruption flick. The events of the film are all set in motion by the massacre of four cops at a drug dealers house. John Voight begs his son, Edward Norton to investigate the case. It soon becomes apparent that Coling ...  Read the complete review