Rating  - Brothers Play Brothers
Real life brothers Emilio Estevez, who is a film maker as well as an actor, and Charlie Sheen, who has been through addiction hell, play the real life brothers Jim Mitchell, a film maker, and Artie Mitchell, who goes into a downward spiral from addictions. I found the parallels interesting and perhaps that is what motivated Emilio to tell this story. The love between both sets of brothers seems very real, and watching Charlie (who has been clean and sober for three or four years now) act out the misery of addiction as Artie was unsettling. I didn't notice any distractions with the skullcaps, and I appreciate Emilio's original film-making style. A thought-provoking movie, and if you are a fan of the Sheen/Estevez clan, definitely check it out. Emilio's son Taylor plays Jim Mitchell as a teenager.
Rating  - Better than I thought
I stumbled across this movie one late night. Normally dramas are not my bag. I like Sci-fi and action/adventure what can I say. But I found myself drawn into the film, particually by Sheen's preformance. The film does have it's shortcommings. But overall it is a stark and very upfront portrayal of the people and events.
It shows how easy it is for things to spiral out of control and how guys who had everything could never be satisfied. Give it a go. You may be surprised with what you find.
Rating  - Estevez and Sheen do it again!
Another fine performance from Martin's young men. A very fine, convincing performance by Charlie and Emilio, well a perfect performance as always. A directorial triumph from Emilio, fresh from his Vietnam epic 'The War At Home', Emilio projects the life of the Mitchell brothers with great verve and vigour, and not a little gusto.
Glad to see Emilio and Charlie starring together after such classic's as Young Guns and Men at Work.
Rating  - why bother
One might think it hard to make an uninteresting movie about the porn industry. But Estevez succeeds here in this regard.
The film is about the Mitchell brothers, but both characters are so unappealing it is hard to care what happens to either of them. Many issues are brought up that are never resolved, such as distributors showing their films without compensation, for which they threaten to sue, but we never learn what the outcome is. They go from incredibly wealthy to living in run-down homes, but is this because of their excessive lifestyles, or business failures? It appears as if key scenes were left on the cutting room floor during the editing process. There are also several montages, and slow-mos that serve no purpose and do not advance the story. The one courtroom scene where they are tried for obscenity is ludicrous. The defense arguments are silly, and a jury trial would not be deciding constitutionality of the law, only if they broke the law, as passed.
Minor problems include showing them as youngsters where the older brother is a large strapping lad, and the younger is rather puny, but then without explanation after seeing the shrimpy Estevez and bigger Sheen, we finally learn that Estevez is actually the older brother. Also, the ridiculous bald heads, where the tops are not even the same color as the rest of the skin and take on a gross greenish color and incredible reflections when shot at an angle.
It probably goes without saying that neither Estevez nor Sheen are very capable actors. Sheen is way over the top and Estevez pauses before every line as if trying to remember his cue.
[...], this is not Estevez' directoral debut, although it would be easy to make that mistake given the ineptitude shown here. He previously made the abysmal movies 'Wisdom' and 'Men at Work'.
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