PRIDE AND GLORY

RYAN: I think my favorite part of the new film “Pride and Glory” was toward the middle when you audibly yawned…

CAROLINE: [laughs’ Oops.

RYAN: Such that you disturbed everyone around us.

CAROLINE: I’m so embarrassed! I so didn’t mean to do that; it just kinda came out. I think I just figured that everyone else was as bored as I was, so I just let out a loud yawn.

RYAN: Meanwhile, I was hysterical because I don’t think you realized how loudly you yawned until after the fact.

CAROLINE: I totally didn’t until I saw you shaking with laughter.

RYAN: And I thought, “You’re enjoying the film that much, huh?”

CAROLINE: Honestly, this movie is so cliché, so trying-to-be-a-good-cop- movie-and-failing-at-almost-every-point, that I don’t even have words.

RYAN: I don’t want to totally tear this film a new one, but I have to agree. Basically, it’s a family cop drama with a bit of action that’s mostly fighting and violence.

CAROLINE: Major violence. I actually had to close my eyes at one point, and I never do that. Some scenes are so disturbing that I can honestly say I’ve never seen anything like it in a movie.

RYAN: More than that though, I was upset by how convoluted, heavy-handed, overly deliberate and confusing the movie is. At different points throughout the film, I thought people were related to each other who weren’t, and it was so hard to keep track. First you think Colin Farrell and Edward Norton are brothers, but it turns out they’re brothers-in-law. Then I thought Lake Bell was Edward’s wife, but she’s actually his sister.

CAROLINE: Well, that one was pretty easy to figure out; you’re just spazzing. But other things definitely were confusing. I hate movies where there are tons of characters and they introduce them all in the first ten minutes and expect you to keep track of everyone’s names and connections to each other. That’s exactly what this movie does, and I could hardly follow it. I figured it out eventually, but the movie didn’t engage me enough to make me care about anyone.

RYAN: There’s also a good cop-bad cop thing going, but it’s not set up well at all so it’s not clear who’s who. I do appreciate having to figure things out for myself in a movie, but this was way too much.

CAROLINE: There are also just so many cop movie clichés – the Irish family with multiple generations of cops, alcohol problems, corruption, etc. And then someone’s got cancer for no reason. It’s like, what’s the point? There are several scenes that could have been cut from the film. They were just time wasters and they had no point or relevance. We found out later that the film was shot two and a half years ago and has just been sitting on a shelf. It’s no wonder.

RYAN: Colin Farrell brought the hotness though. As for my girl Lake Bell – blink and you’ll miss her. Edward Norton, who’s of course a brilliant, very natural actor, didn’t feel right in this role. He’s not physically threatening enough.

CAROLINE: The movie just didn’t work for me on so many levels. I’m really disappointed because I thought the trailer was good. But we’ve seen so many better cop movies than this one, such as last year’s “Gone Baby Gone,” or “The Departed.” Bottom line?

RYAN: I can’t recommend this film. I don’t even think it’s worth renting. I don’t want to say it’s totally worthless, but I am saying, “Skip it.” So infer what you will.

CAROLINE: [laughs’ I wish I could recommend this movie, but not so much. I’m sure people will see it because of the great cast, but it doesn’t deliver.

RYAN: Unless we’re totally off. Our friend Tom saw it with us. Tom, is this just a dude movie?

TOM: No. I didn’t like it either. Stay home instead and rent “We Own the Night,” a much better cop movie that nobody saw.