A generation apart from Goodfellas, The Godfather trilogy and similar films but expertly written, creatively cast and acted to perfection by all. Simply wonderful viewing with a message for the viewer. Doesn't matter how hard you hit, there's always somebody bigger and harder around the corner!

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!

Another interesting movie from well known Japanese director Takeshi Kitano.Kitano established himself as an excellent director and in this one he acts good too.His face has no emotions in portraying this character.He had help from some American actors,especially Omar Epps.Probably you wonder what connection could possibly have Kitano and Epps but there are few scenes in witch they work perfectly.Movie has lots of blood,lots of dead people but it also shows us the way of living.The underground scene of Japan and America.Gangs,drugs,weapons,yakuza,Japanese and Americans.The only man who can connect this is Kitano and his excellent writing.This is definitely not the best Kitano movie but it's worth watching.Because of very good script.Because of very good acting.And finally because of Takeshi Kitano's talent.