"Pride and Glory" shines in theaters
Cop corruption provides thrill ride
Casey Weaver - STAFF WRITER
Issue date: 11/7/08 Section: Features
Dirty cops, gangsters and family drama make a good cop drama. Pride and Glory depicts the struggle between good cops and bad cops as well as loyalty to family and brotherhood.
Edward Norton, Colin Farrell, Jon Voight and Noah Emmerick are a family of cops who find themselves on opposite sides of illegal activity inside the Manhattan City Police Department.
They are all in various stages of the police department from detectives to chiefs.
When several cops are killed in an apparent ambush Voight, who plays Francis Tierney Chief of Manhattan Detectives, asks his son Ray Tireney to head the task force on finding the people responsible for the cop killings.
Emmerich plays dectective Francis Tierney who was in charge of the officers at the time they were ambushed.
Ray is supposed to find the drug dealers who are responsible for this and put them behind bars.
Farrell plays Jimmy Eagen who has married into the family and is Francis and Ray's brother-in-law.
During Ray's investigation the evidence isn't adding up. The more he digs the more he realizes he is not looking for a drug dealer, but rather a dirty cop.
Worse yet, the more information he receives the more he realizes he is really looking for his brother or his brother in law.
Ray has lied before to protect his fellow cops. He is given away to cover up what really happened, all he would have to do is lie to internal affairs and it would all go away.
It is a choice nobody would ever want to make. To chose between brotherhood and your own personal morality.
This movie depicts the classic struggle between family and a person's own ethics. It also shows what can happen when the checks and balances system fails.
"Shoot-'em-up" blood and gore scenes expected from a cop drama are present in this movie.
This movie will leave viewers not knowing which side to agree with.
Part of you will side with one while being able to understand where the other is coming from.
There are scenes which are understandable and others are still reprehensible.
You will leave the film asking questions you never thought you would have to ask yourself.
Although it is hard to make an original cop movie these days and some of the movie I have seen before it is the acting that sets this film apart.
Norton and Farrell both give this movie a little something extra.
Edward Norton, Colin Farrell, Jon Voight and Noah Emmerick are a family of cops who find themselves on opposite sides of illegal activity inside the Manhattan City Police Department.
They are all in various stages of the police department from detectives to chiefs.
When several cops are killed in an apparent ambush Voight, who plays Francis Tierney Chief of Manhattan Detectives, asks his son Ray Tireney to head the task force on finding the people responsible for the cop killings.
Emmerich plays dectective Francis Tierney who was in charge of the officers at the time they were ambushed.
Ray is supposed to find the drug dealers who are responsible for this and put them behind bars.
Farrell plays Jimmy Eagen who has married into the family and is Francis and Ray's brother-in-law.
During Ray's investigation the evidence isn't adding up. The more he digs the more he realizes he is not looking for a drug dealer, but rather a dirty cop.
Worse yet, the more information he receives the more he realizes he is really looking for his brother or his brother in law.
Ray has lied before to protect his fellow cops. He is given away to cover up what really happened, all he would have to do is lie to internal affairs and it would all go away.
It is a choice nobody would ever want to make. To chose between brotherhood and your own personal morality.
This movie depicts the classic struggle between family and a person's own ethics. It also shows what can happen when the checks and balances system fails.
"Shoot-'em-up" blood and gore scenes expected from a cop drama are present in this movie.
This movie will leave viewers not knowing which side to agree with.
Part of you will side with one while being able to understand where the other is coming from.
There are scenes which are understandable and others are still reprehensible.
You will leave the film asking questions you never thought you would have to ask yourself.
Although it is hard to make an original cop movie these days and some of the movie I have seen before it is the acting that sets this film apart.
Norton and Farrell both give this movie a little something extra.
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