BROTHERS

COOME ON!!-ITS JAKE GYLLENGAL,TOBI MCGUIRE AND NATALIE PORTMAN IN THE SAME FILMIC SPACE FOR 2 HOURS!! You bet your sweet arse i was all over it.lol

A real storyline thats held its own. A Cane-Abel thing thrown into the middle of the Iraqi war thing and a beautiful wife-thing with 2 cute daughters,the older of whom was more like  8 going on 21.

Tough for me to accept Natalie as a mother of 8 and 5 yr old(thereabouts)-the picture didn't just fit for me-but from the background tale ,i gathered that-she and Tobi' character probably got married right out of highschool-so that stopped that itch.

...and first time seeing Tobey in a full out drama-drama,and he was "all up in there" especially halfway through the movie as his character disfigures emotionally and somewhat physically- all thanks to Tobi's great acting.

At the start- all i saw was the cute-babyface Toby-and i was like-naaah this isn't going to work-him a hard-arse soldier,a father of two...naah-but as the plot intensified his character potrayal was grand.

Seriously,in my humble opinion Toby's role is something that would have been "home" for Jake G. because Jake has done a lot more drama in all forms so i was pleasantly suprised to see him in the less pscychological explosive role.I kept expecting his character to burst out Jakey style...lol but he never does-he rode the calmer river this time and let Toby burn the house down.It was fun to watch this.

Madam Natalie was the lady in between-but not the way you expect-not the way this script was written anyway. This was no love triangle thing(as some lazy films have depicted).This one was with more meaty complexity(just my opinion) ,nicely done and Natalie as a mum made it look too easy. The camera loves her though and she's still one of my great favs.

A quiet story with some fireworks...and/or just plain fire.
A beautiful homage of empathy and sympathy for what some of these soldiers do and endure just so they can go home. The love in this screen fable is in my humble opinion, depicted with  realness and a lot of heart.