Phoenix does not rise high in ‘Night’
Few will forget the steamy and explicit sex scene between Eva Mendes and Joaquin Phoenix that begins “We Own the Night,” but the rest of the film fails to maintain the same level of excitement.
Phoenix plays nightclub manager Bobby Green, who hides his policemen brother and father from his fast-living friends. After a hit man attempts to kill his brother, Green is forced to more closely examine his connections to the drug trade and the Russian mob as he struggles to protect the rest of his family from the criminals who patronize his establishment. It’s cops against the mob, and...
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