The Brothers (2001)

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

The Brothers is a classic tale of boys becoming men.Morris Chesnut is Jackson Smith, a successful pediatrician and leading man of the crew who gets involved with Denise (Gabrielle Union) his Mom is played by Jennifer Lewis and sister is Tatiana Ali best known as Ashley from Prince of Bel-Air Shemar Moore is Terry White, womanizer and we're lead to believe he's a ladies man...which by his looks, we don't doubt. He's getting engaged to Bebe, a woman who's at the gun range 3x/wk D.L. Hughley is Derrick West who has allowed his wife to control the terms of their relationship instead of it being a partnership. He also wants to get a need fulfilled by his wife that she won't fill Bill Bellamy is Brian Palmer a womanizer in the other direction of Terry. No charm, no guile no wit...he gives up on dating black women and is trying to get through to his mother (who was on Scrubs as Nurse Laverne) So the 4 come together every week to play basketball and air out their life issues with candor and a lot of laughs! This movie is well done, and true to life as I've seen it. Great writing, storytelling is on point and the depth of the characters...at least the ones we're supposed to care about stands out among other films Great film I rate it a 9 out of 10

Only a few words can describe this film: Typical, DeJa VuTypical African-American standared fare. Chock full of stereotypes, cliches, its nothing we havn't seen already. On a more personal note, I don't say this because I am prejudice, but these types of movies are all the same. 1/2 - 5.

I really though that The Brothers was a wonderful and positive movie. We as African Americans complain so much about what the black male isn't doing or what he's not being allowed to do, when he finally does something positive what do we do? We don't support him because we're to busy saying what he did wrong and not supporting what he did right. In my opinion the movie was excellent and something i'm sure alot of guys can relate to. I give Gary Hardwick two thumbs up for directing and writing an excellent movie.

This is another good movie that explores the relations between men and women in contemporary Black America. I compare it to "Waiting to Exhale", "A Thin Line Between Love and Hate", "Soul Food", "The Best Man", and "The Wood". It is a worthy successor to these. There is something odd about the user ratings for this movie. As I write this, 90 of 289 votes are supposedly a "1". In trying to look at the demographics to see what type of person thought the movie so bad, I noticed that these 90 negative votes don't show up elsewhere! For example, if you look at the breakdown by sex, it received 52 1-votes out of 194. A similar discrepancy is found in the breakdown by age and by nationality. I rate it a 7.