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Summary: Complexity
Review: This film speaks of depth and incredibly complex characters (which can be a good thing, because we're all complex people, and we can sympathize with them). The music is perfect for the film, with light and airy strings with the capibility to become heartbreaking, changing the mood but still complimenting the story properly.The film stars Mark Wahlberg [as Leo] the quiet, poor boy from the bronx who gets out of prison for taking the rap for an auto-theft he and some of his friends didn't quite pull off. His best friend Willie [played by Joaquin Phoenix] is charazmatic, with a secured job in a train businesses, he's finally making money and establishing a foundation for himself and his girlfriend Erika (Charlize Theron). The Yards is what I consider a tragety, people pulled and suckered into bad events, sinking into a quicksand trap of misery not by the choices they make but by their enviornment and the people around them. Incredible cast, and excellent story. The only real down point is that it, at some points, seems to drag. However, this is an excellent film because of the manner it is shot in, no flair no side plots, using old godfather style film techniques that make the actors almost like they've been made on an artist's canvas.
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Summary: thumbs up is right
Review: this is a good movie about Mark Wahlberg who comes back after some period and starts working for his friend Joaquin Pheonix and his dad James Caan. anyway while at The Yards someone gets killed by Pheonix and things start to heat up. good performances all around, especially Wahlberg and the psycho Pheonix. Pheonix finds out that Wahlberg was in love one time with I think Charlize Theron's his cousin, yeah his cousin and then Pheonix tries to pin the murder on Wahlberg and it just bellys into a series of emotions and chaos when Pheonix accidently kills Theron. James Caan, Ellen Burstyn and Faye Dunaway also star
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Summary: A movie that creeps up on you
Review: This is one of those movies that creeps up on you. It starts slowly, but it builds up very well, and I found it only too believable, very affecting, and quite amazingly gripping. Great performances, and certainly it bears some comparison to The Godfather, though it's not quite as richly-textured as that masterpiece. Still and all, a most enjoyable movie.
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Summary: THIS MOVIE DOESNT DERSERVE STARS
Review: This movie was very boring. There was no plot, very confusing. Total waste of time. A cop hits Leo with his club. So he fights back and puts him in a coma. As for being military cop, I know that what Leo did is SELF DEFENSE. The movie has no explanation to it whatsoever and doesnt make sense. The fact that Leo goes on the run, is bull. He does NOT go on the run. He faces everyone. Then his friend killing his cousin by throwing her over the stairs. GET REAL, HOW MANY MOVIES DOES THIS HAPPEN IN?? ALSO HOW MANY MOVIES DOES SOMEONE GET FRAMED FOR MURDER???? I don't understand why other viwers gave it a 4 or 5 stat. It doesn;t anything. If you want to see a real good Mark Wahlberg action movie, then go see The Big Hit.
Rating: 
Summary: Good Movie
Review: Well made family crime drama. Nothing new but has its heart in the right place. Excellent performances and stylish direction and cinematography. Don't expect a great deal of action in the literal sense. This is a movie more about people and a family surviving in crime.
Rating:
Summary: Good Movie
Review: Well made family crime drama. Nothing new but has its heart in the right place. Excellent performances and stylish direction and cinematography. Don't expect a great deal of action in the literal sense. This is a movie more about people and a family surviving in crime.
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