Memorable, crazy movie

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Brother like many other Takeshi Kitano films it is a gangster related action film the film itself is worth a 7 out of 10 but it's Kitanos witty dry almost British humour in his films that brings him up a notch, in this film the scene where he is betting on whether a man or woman comes round the corner scene, no spoilers u gotta check it out. Just like his other films with action great directing but mainly his cheeky banter and professional acting skills that makes the film. If you likes his 93 film sonatine this film is on par with that , but even better if you prefer less subtitles as its set in us only half is subtitles but to me I love my world cinema so it is all good. This film is definitely a good Friday night watch ..

You know the Dos Equis commercials with "the most interesting man alive"? You KNOW he's not the most interesting man alive, but the comic genius, style and humor of the one-liners force you to engage the possibility of A most interesting man. "Brother" is literally the worst movie I have ever watched! It is worse than a college film or short made by a child. It was SO hard to watch, but I was simply amazed that Omar Epps would be in such a horrible film...but now understand how his career went down the shoot. This movie made him look like (or revealed him to be) a HORRIBLE actor. I had never thought he was great before, but this was just disgraceful. This movie actually caused me pain to watch. It was like one of those rags to riches stories...but you just don't have any idea of HOW everybody got to the riches...or, more importantly, WHY???? And for you people (those) who gave this movie a 10 - did the filmmaker pay you to join this website and vote 10s??? HOW could ANYONE (even a mentally retarded or highly-challenged individual) vote beyond a 2?? It actually had potential (concept/story-wise), but was TOTALLY unbelievable! And the acting!?! MY GOD!!! The acting was just like vomit ingested...and vomited AGAIN!!!

I rarely write reviews here and like a previous reviewer of this film I had never heard of this movie until it randomly came on HBO. I am a big fan of Japanese movies and I really like Kitano so I watched with interest and it payed off big time. While this is an extremely violent gangster movie I can't help but think of it as an art film. There is more said during the long silences than the bursts of dialog and the relatively brief amount of dialog becomes all the more important and impactful because of its scarcity. I really never thought I could see a thought provoking artistic delivery of a mob movie but here it is. Kitano delivers a true gem that I didn't think could exist. 11/10!

Fantastic portrayal of the ruthless and die-hard Yakuzas. The great storyline manifests emotional and creative intelligence, and incites continuous interest. There is some humour amongst the intense action and gripping plot. A must see.There are plenty of assassinations, assassination attempts, demonstrations of power/allegiance/ruthlessness/respect. The movie shows the felicity that comes from power and wealth, and the terrors of living in fear of being assassinated and losing your friends and family to bullets and bombs.CAREFUL, THE FOLLOWING IS A SPOILER:A Yakuza's (Aniki) boss is killed, and with the Japanese police interfering in the gang war and Aniki's gang joining up with the enemy gang, "Aniki" (Big Brother) decides to move to the U.S. He finds his younger brother and immediately gets himself into gang activity and starts a gang and war of his own in America.