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I like the story. Good cops mix with bad cops. The story is easy to understand and it is very engaging. But the movie itself is boring. The first half is very slow. The second half picks up the pace a whole lot better.

The dvd is a double sided disc. One side is the wide screen version. The other side is the 4:3 version. There is not any extra in the DVD. It is just the movie.

The story is good but the movie is very boring to watch. Make should you have a big cup of coffee to go with this movie.

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"Pride and Glory [Blu-ray]" Overview

Edward Norton, Colin Farrell, Jon Voight and Noah Emmerich star in a gritty, tension-packed tale of a multigenerational family of cops facing hard realities and tough choices. Set and filmed in Manhattan's Washington Heights, Pride and Glory draws you into a grippingly raw real world...and into a house divided.

"Pride and Glory [Blu-ray]" Specifications

Like a forgotten, one-and-only season of a 1980s television show about an Irish-American family of cops, Pride and Glory is full of ambition but lacks the storytelling instinct to realize the goal. Edward Norton stars as Ray Tierney, a New York City police detective whose father, Francis Sr. (Jon Voight), boss of all Manhattan detectives, pressures him into investigating the murder of four officers. Ray's efforts uncover a corruption scandal centered around his brother-in-law, Jimmy (Colin Farrell), a beat cop whose commander happens to be, of course, Ray's brother, Francis Jr. (Noah Emmerich). As Ray pushes forward, Jimmy's self-protective instinct goes savage, and the rest of the Tierney males shift to cover-up mode. Co-writers Joe Carnahan (Narc) and Gavin O'Connor (Miracle), who also directs this film, make a fatal mistake by forcing every element in a long story to further a prefabricated narrative shape, leading to the conclusion they want. But they can't pull it off without awkward transitions and bridges, including the perfunctory inclusion of an intrepid reporter who conveniently breezes in and out of the movie long enough to explain Ray's back story aloud. A monstrous scene involving Farrell holding a steaming iron (prop or not) over a baby's face is inexcusable. --Tom Keogh

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A BIG minus! - V. WAGNER - Biarritz, FRANCE.
The F word is pronounced in just about each sentence, including blasphemy during the holiday season and family get togethers. No head, no tail, long, boring, talentless all around. Glad I didn't purchase this film. God help America, especially Hollywood. We're in heaps of trouble.

A corrupt cop masterpiece... - A. Cosentino - New York City
The story, the acting, the directing, all excellent. And Farrell has never been better. Some scenes are truly drama at its finest.

Nothing Worth Noting - D. Ashal - Aztlan, holmes
Norton and Farrell are good actors. Some of the dialogue in this actually sounds somewhat real. That's all I can really say for this movie. It's like the cliche-bot 5000 was ordered to write a script combining every movie with good cops and crooked cops over the last 25 years and this is what it churned out. We already know who is who, what they're like, and what's going to happen, more or less, by the second act, and to make up for the lack of dramatic tension we get treated to a couple of torture scenes and Farrell threatening to barbeque an infant, as well as Norton's brother's wife dying of cancer to give it a shot of pathos in a throwaway subplot. The Irish cops here were so sterotypical that I'm surprised they didn't have an extended scene of them drinking Guiness and hawking Lucky Charms. Apparently them being Irish cops earns it a comparison to "The Departed", which is kind of like comparing "Duece Bigalow, Male Gigolo" to "Midnight Cowboy". Hey speaking of Midnight Cowboy, wasn't there a time when John Voight was a pretty good actor? Wouldn't know it to see this. The ending is about as ridiculous and coincidence-dependent as anything I've seen. It's not horrific, but it's fairly bad. If you just need to see a cheesy movie about corrupt cops, can I suggest Training Day? Sure, it's also ridiculous, but it's also entertaining and slightly less predictable.

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