The Brothers (2001): Dir: Gary Hardwick / Cast: Morris Chestnut, Bill Bellamy, Shemar Moore, D.L. Hughley, Gabrielle Union: Effective drama about strong bond by four friends that is threatened with evaporation by women. One of them is getting married so they assemble on the basketball court to discuss old glory days. Director Gary Hardwick brings great insight and creates realistic characters with depth. On the down side it is easily predictable where each individual or relationship will result in obvious conclusions. Morris Chestnut plays a lawyer who falls in love with a woman who had a previous fling with his father. Shemar Moore is engaged but has cold feet. D.L. Hughley is married but sexually frustrated with his wife, which sometimes leads to amusing moments particularly in dialogue. Bill Bellamy drinks because he is afraid of commitment but he certainly isn't afraid of an active dating life. They all carry baggage but their bonding friendship is their escape as they vent their frustrations. The budget is not overwhelming, which gives the film the appeal of a standard drama often made for TV. Beyond that the screenplay effectively details these characters to where viewers may relate. Despite its predictable outcomes the film is a detailed look at four lives and the changes they made and the friendships that draw them together. Score: 8 / 10

Disgust, tedium, fatuity, and pure hatred.. That's close to what I feel about this movie ! It's the ultimate unbearable movie for me. You can agonize me, shoot me, force me to watch one complete episode of "Friends" !, but don't you ever make me watch this movie again, a slice of it, or even mention it in front of me. It's Waiting to Exhale – The Mannish Version, though it's rather Refusing To Exhale according to the honest tagline (you'd feel how truthful that is while the painful watching !). GOD, what a bunch of bad actors. If I have ever found the lamp of Aladdin, I'll wish for Morris Chestnut to vanish from the face of the earth. Can an actor be more silly ?? Not a chance !. I think also that this movie broke the world record for the highest number for the times of saying the word "Man" in one movie. I bet it was something like 2768 times already ! It's, at its best, a poor boring TV work with uninteresting everything. And I believe they should've named it The Rich Brothers instead of The Brothers, since it talks about very wealthy dudes whom got the time and the money to bother us with all of their stupid problems. How many real brothers loved this silly drama? Yes, it's not compulsory to talk about poor or middle-classed black people to be attractive or realistic but even those guys' life, feelings, or the way they were shown, or the way this cast performed, all of that made it too provocative to follow or to find some human characters to be interested in, which left all the bad taste in the world where you're forced to watch some cold characters acting coldly also ! It's the closest movie I've ever seen to a sticky fly circuits around you in awful insistence at a hot day. The only survivor is the line : "Man doesn't know himself until he meets the woman he loves !" Eventually, it's not on the top of my list for the worst movies ever, it's on the top of my list for the DEADLIEST ever. It's a real guy-cry, wanna hear it? So watch it yourself !

When I first saw this movie, I loved it. I actually bought the movie in a 2 pack at Suncoast. Don't go there by the way, they are way too expensive when you could just go to a cheaper store. But I digress. I loved The Best Man. It was much better, whoever it was that said it isn't. Anyway, it is just way too boring. What gets me though, is that I loved almost every actor in this movie. The only one i didn't know was Bebe and she kinda grew on me. This movie was just too dry for me. Morris Chestnut was being generous because he was in this movie when it was independent, before getting picked up by screen gems, which really perturbs me. This doesn't compare to bewitched or any of the screen gems shows. Besides that, the movie really disillusions the trailer. I'm sorry I just can't lie about this lame movie. Big disappointment. I still love the actors and I'm willing to give the writer a chance.

Wow i saw this movie and thought is was quite fun to watch, and then look at the ratings here and see the majority of them are ones. Serious black films get critique harder then other films because black viewers want to have a great black film. So a movie with like this with well-to-do men, exagerated characters, and lots of mood lightening humor wont win any academy awards. But thats not to say this is a bad film. Its very good at what it tries to do. This film is enjoyable whether you are white or black.