Four Brothers

This is a revenge story pure and simple. Four men who were raised as foster children by the same mother return for her funeral. She was shot in what at first appears to be a neighborhood convenience store robbery, but which, upon closer inspection, looks more and more like a "hit."

The main gimmick of this film as that the brothers, who she took in as juvenile delinquents because no one else would have them, are mixed races with two of them white and two of them black, and yet they feel like brothers and have all the love and conflicts that real brothers-in-blood might have.

Considering the rather fabricated premise, the lead actors (Mark Wahlberg, Tyrese Green, Andre Benjamin, and Garett Hedlund) generate believable chemistry as they investigate their mom's death, determine it was a murder, and hunt down the men responsible for her death.

It is set in Detroit in winter but was actually filmed mostly in Ontario, Canada, a city with neighborhoods and industrial areas very similar to those of Detroit.

No Oscar nominations will come from this movie but it's an above average thriller and while not perhaps a great "date movie," it's certainly a good afternoon popcorn movie.