Brother (2000)

Stars	User	Rating
2	TheDenizen	70 _63%
Whoever told Omar Epps he could act needs a good kicking. Epps' poor delivery drags this decent story down a bit.
2	Semiramis	80 _44%
In the same vein as the other Kitano films but this time unleashed in an American environment.
2	ananin ami	1 _17%
fuck i ve never seen this shit
1	Magb	75 _50%
Standard Kitano here, in spite of the American setting. You've got the same violence, the same hopelessness of a life of crime, the same somber music, Kitano himself is playing more or less the same character, pretty much everyone winds up dead at the end; this is more of the same if you've seen Fireworks or Sonatine. I like it quite a bit, though. The American setting goes some way in spicing things up, and Kitano's bleak worldview is interesting enough to carry the film some distance.
1	djross	65 _70%
My recollection is that this received poor reviews when it was released, but that I found it more enjoyable than some of the director's more celebrated efforts.
1	Dustyd	45 _14%
a weak effort from the director
1	McJohnson	55 _6%
Could have been something. Turned out a hard-to-follow, convoluted mess.
1	Judo Koala	65 _23%
I feel like the transition to America drags this down more than it should...The film seems to oscillate between moments of cold, 'Badass Beat' brutality, and odd scenes of comedic relief which made it feel like I was watching the culture-clash humour of something like 'Rush Hour'. There, such humour fits the lighthearted context of the narrative; here, not so much. Beat is still the man, but even he has admitted this is one of his flatter films.
1	closedmouth	60 _20%
Not the unmitigated disaster I was expecting, but still very awkward. The scenes in Japan are quite good, but pretty much everything involving Americans made me cringe (I could hardly watch Denny's mother's birthday party). And Kitano's timing is way off, with scenes going on way too long, and the attempts at comic relief (so perfect in Sonatine and Hana-bi) falling completely flat. A failed experiment.
1	afx237vi	45 _29%
Like a multi-cultural version of Scarface. This one is infused with a grim fatalism and explores the idea once you reach the top of the tree, there's only ever one way you're going after that. It has the same blunt violence of the other Kitano films I've seen, but the stone-face act he pulls in this one is quite tiresome. It's hard to sympathise with a main character who is essentially a selective mute for most of the film.
1	alvinkei	72 _34%
bad ass movie except the black dude can't fuckin act. kitano's style at its best
1	eCitizen	40 _32%
Very stylistic but poor acting performances, atrocious dialog & poor plot progression. The pacing was terrible. I especially disliked the lead actor who has zero charisma & lacked emotion & expression. Most of the action defied logic, including random scenes of strange violence set in Japan. Direction was also bad, especially at the end, with action off-screen or handled with strobe light effects. Music was awful. A gangster movie where pretty much everybody gets killed. A bit novel but tedious.
1	Alex WS	46 _23%
Sister.
1	rttntomatoes	47 _21%
There is too much hollow bloodshed in Brother, and the characters are stereotypically flat.
1	hakkanarejo	90 _39%
Abandoned by the brotherhood of his yakuza clan, tough guy Yamamoto (Beat Takeshi) is forced to leave Tokyo. He goes to Los Angeles in search of Ken (Claude Maki), his younger half-brother. Alone and with a new identity, Yamamoto finds himself frustrated by foreign surroundings, especially since he doesn't speak the language.

Average Percentile 55.9% from 668 Ratings