Four Brothers (2005)

The Boyz may be men, and the Hood might have changed, but Four Brothers finds director John Singleton treading depressingly similar ground to his ground-breaking 1991 debut. Widening his casting net to include white actors and leavening the gangbanger mayhem with blackly comic elements might be developments of sorts. But his latest thriller says nothing Boyz N The Hood didn’t already tell us about the dangers of nihilistic, retributive violence.

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