Brothers 2009 123movies

Watch: Brothers 2009 123movies, Full Movie Online – Before leaving on his second tour in Afghanistan, Marine Captain Sam Cahill, a leader, an athlete, a good husband and father, welcomes his screw-up brother Tommy home from prison. He’d robbed a bank. In country, Sam’s helicopter is shot down and all are presumed dead. Back home, while Sam wastes away as a prisoner in a remote encampment, Tommy tries to take care of the widow and her two children. While imprisoned, Sam experiences horrors unbearable, so when he’s rescued and returns home, he’s silent, detached, without affect, and he’s convinced his wife and brother have slept together. Demons of war possess him; what will silence them?.
Plot: When his helicopter goes down during his fourth tour of duty in Afghanistan, Marine Sam Cahill is presumed dead. Back home, brother Tommy steps in to look over Sam’s wife, Grace, and two children. Sam’s surprise homecoming triggers domestic mayhem.
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Ratings:

	7.1/10 Votes: 127,881
	64% | RottenTomatoes
	58/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 2637 Popularity: 112.805 | TMDB

Reviews:

a triumph of acting over story
Brothers is something we may have seen before – if not in its original incarnation from Denmark in 2004 then The Deer Hunter – then it is something that surprises just on the vulnerability, subtlety and ferocity of the actors in their roles. It’s not about what the trailer pushes, which is an affair between a guy (Jake Gyllenhaal) and his sister in law (Natalie Portman) while the one guy’s brother (Tobey Maguire) is away at war. There is one scene of that, but that’s not really what the film is ‘about’ per-say. It’s about the personal affects of war on one man, a horrific tragedy that befalls him, and how he has to live with that the rest of his life, specifically in front of his wife and children. Maguire’s Sam says it simply towards the end: “Only the dead see the end of war. I have seen the end of War. How do I go on living?”

If I may have spoiled the message of the movie- and in its own microcosm way it’s as anti-war (or perhaps just anti-torture) as it could get in modern movies- it shouldn’t detract from the pleasures of Brothers. This is seeing the actors- Portman, Gyllenhaal, Sam Shephard, especially Maguire- fill in these characters with enough depth and passions and fears and desires and ghosts that make them more than real to us. That’s not just their achievement but director Jim Sheridan’s. He lets his players breathe life into characters who, while not wooden or two-dimensional by any stretch, need that extra push as seen in David Benioff’s characterizations and scenarios. Family life, its fragility and it’s equal amount of love and self-torment, is what counts (again, Deer Hunter), and it’s this that works in the film.

A word though about Tobey Maguire. I’m not the only critic pointing him out, and it goes without saying he’s not the only worthwhile actor in the cast (there’s even performances by the girls playing Sam’s kids that are extraordinary). But it’s the transformation that really counts. Perhaps it’s noteworthy that both brothers do transform in the film, as Tommy, the ex-con, goes from being a drunken nobody to stepping up to help his brother’s barely-holding-it-together wife after the news that her husband is dead, while Sam is in the downward spiral. It’s crucial too that Sheridan shows those scenes in Afghanistan that cause Sam to change so radically as he does (the way they’re inter-cut in the at-home narrative is a little uneasy, one of the flaws of the film), so that we see a good person shrunk down to his deepest, darkest depths.

When that last third comes around, it’s electrifying how intense Maguire can get, even when he’s just in his insinuating mode ala Jake LaMotta of accusing his brother of adultery. For anyone just looking at Maguire as Spider-Man’s Peter Parker must give this a look to see his range; indeed a double feature of Brothers and Seabiscuit will show how Maguire is one of the most underrated actors under forty in Hollywood. If the role calls for it, as it does here, he goes to town, a you-can’t-blame-him Oscar bait performance.

Spoiled by the ending
I watched the original Danish version of this film some time ago. Connie Neilsen was stunning as the wife, Nikolas Lie Kaaj was good as the brother, and Ulrich Thomsen fitted the role of the Captain like a glove – mature, grave and, upon his return, with a sense of foreboding. In this remake, Natalie Portman is superb, while Jake Gyllenhaal, Sam Shepard and the 2 kids are all excellent. But Tobey Maguire is no Ulrich Thomsen. It’s not that he’s a bad actor, it’s just that casting him as Captain Cahill of the Marines was akin to picking Russell Crowe to play Rudolph Nureyev in the film version of “Swan Lake”.

The other aspect in which seeing the Danish version first somewhat spoiled the remake was that a number of scenes were changed, some in only minor ways, but none for the better – the killing, the rescue, the post-rescue de-briefing and counselling (omitted here), the visit of the Captain to the private’s wife and son. Most of all, in the Danish film, the whole movie was geared towards the revelations at the end, and when they came, they were emotional and powerful. In this film, it seems as though the producers ran out of time, or out of money, or out of interest. “I killed him.” That’s it. The End. Major disappointment.

Pity, because it was quite a good story and quite a good film. I’d have given it 7, but that ending dumped it down to 5.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 45 min (105 min)
Budget 26000000
Revenue 43318349
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Drama, Thriller, War
Director Jim Sheridan
Writer David Benioff, Susanne Bier, Anders Thomas Jensen
Actors Jake Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman, Tobey Maguire
Country United States
Awards 4 wins & 16 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital, DTS
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Arricam LT, Cooke Speed Panchro Lenses, Arricam ST, Cooke S4 and Zeiss Variable Prime Lenses, Arriflex 235, Cooke Speed Panchro Lenses
Laboratory DeLuxe, Hollywood (CA), USA (film processing), EFILM Digital Laboratories, Hollywood (CA), USA (digital intermediate), Technicolor, Hollywood (CA), USA (release prints)
Film Length 2,850 m (Portugal, 35 mm)
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak Vision2 200T 5217, Vision2 500T 5218, Vision2 Expression 500T 5229)
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (2K) (master format), Super 35 (3-perf) (source format)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (anamorphic) (Fuji Eterna-CP 3513DI), D-Cinema