A revenge movie is always a risky one, because if you get the heart of the story wrong, you’re in danger of alienating the audience by making the protagonists unlikable. However, get it right, and you’ll hook the audience and have them hanging on every word. It’s a creative tightrope filmmakers walk, and this movie is one of the ones that got it right.
Four Brothers will stream for free next month on Kanopy, which will give viewers the chance to see one of the most intriguing crime thrillers of the mid-2000s. The film follows four adopted brothers who reunite after their mother is killed during what appears to be a convenience-store robbery. However, when they begin digging into what happened, they discover the murder might have been part of a greater conspiracy. We reckon we know where this one’s going. Predictability does not make a bad film, though; as long as the film delivers on its premise in a competent and engaging way. A movie like this is a perfect Saturday night watch.
The cast includes Mark Wahlberg (The Departed, Boogie Nights) as Bobby Mercer, Tyrese Gibson (Fast Five, Transformers) as Angel Mercer, André Benjamin (Idlewild, Be Cool) as Jeremiah Mercer, Garrett Hedlund (Tron: Legacy, Mudbound) as Jack Mercer, Terrence Howard (Hustle & Flow, Iron Man) as Lt. Green, Josh Charles (The Good Wife, Dead Poets Society) as Detective Fowler, Sofía Vergara (Modern Family, Chef) as Sofi, Chiwetel Ejiofor(12 Years a Slave, The Martian) as Victor Sweet, and Fionnula Flanagan (The Others, Lost) as Evelyn Mercer.
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Collider Exclusive · Sci-Fi Survival Quiz Which Sci-Fi World Would You Survive? The Matrix · Mad Max · Blade Runner · Dune · Star Wars
Five universes. Five completely different ways the future went wrong — or sideways, or up in flames. Only one of them is the world your instincts were built for. Eight questions will figure out which dystopia, galaxy, or desert wasteland you’d actually make it out of alive.
💊The Matrix
🔥Mad Max
🌧️Blade Runner
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🏜️Dune
🚀Star Wars
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You sense something is deeply wrong with the world around you. What do you do? The first instinct is often the truest one.
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In a world of scarcity, what resource do you guard most fiercely? What we protect reveals what we believe survival actually requires.
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What kind of threat keeps you up at night? Fear is useful data — if you’re honest about what you’re actually afraid of.
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How do you deal with authority you don’t trust? Every dystopia has a power structure. Your approach to it determines everything.
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Which environment could you actually endure long-term? Survival isn’t just tactical — it’s physical, psychological, and very much about where you are.
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Who do you want in your corner when things fall apart? The company you keep is the clearest signal of who you actually are.
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Where do you draw the line — if you draw one at all? Every survivor eventually faces a moment that tests what they’re actually made of.
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What would actually make survival worth it? Staying alive is one thing. Having a reason to is another.
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Your Fate Has Been Calculated You’d Survive In…
Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for.
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The Resistance, Zion
The Matrix
You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You’re a systems thinker who can’t help but notice the seams in things.
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You’re drawn to understanding how the system works before figuring out how to break it.
You’d find the Resistance, or it would find you — your instinct for spotting constructed realities is the machines’ worst nightmare.
You function best when you have access to information and the freedom to act on it.
The Matrix built an airtight prison. You’d be the one probing the walls for the door.
The Wasteland
Mad Max
The wasteland doesn’t reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break. That’s you.
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You don’t need comfort, community, or a cause larger than the next horizon.
You need a vehicle, a clear threat, and enough fuel to outrun it — and you’re good at all three.
You are unsentimental enough to survive that world, and decent enough — just barely — to be something more than another raider.
In the wasteland, that distinction is everything.
Los Angeles, 2049
Blade Runner
You’d survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.
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You read people accurately, keep your circle small, and ask the questions others prefer not to answer.
In a city where humanity is a legal designation rather than a feeling, you hold onto something that keeps you functional.
You’re not a hero. But you’re not lost, either.
In Blade Runner’s world, that distinction is everything.
Arrakis
Dune
Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.
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Patience, discipline, and political awareness are your core strengths — and on Arrakis, they’re survival tools.
You understand that the long game matters more than any single victory.
Others come to Dune and are consumed by it. You’d learn its logic and earn its respect.
In time, you wouldn’t just survive Arrakis — you’d begin to reshape it.
A Galaxy Far, Far Away
Star Wars
The galaxy far, far away is vast, loud, and in a constant state of violent political upheaval — and you wouldn’t have it any other way.
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You find meaning in being part of something larger than yourself — a cause, a crew, a rebellion.
You’d gravitate toward the Rebellion, or the fringes, or whatever pocket of the galaxy still believes the Empire’s grip can be broken.
You fight — not because you have to, but because standing aside isn’t something you’re capable of.
In Star Wars, that willingness is what makes all the difference.
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Was ‘Four Brothers’ a Success?
Financially, the movie was a fairly big success. At the box office, the movie — which reportedly cost around $30 million to make — went on to gross around $92.5 million worldwide, so about three times its production budget. And in addition to that, it also opened at No. 1 domestically with around $21.2 million in its first weekend. Critically, though, it wasn’t held in quite the highest regard. It would be fair to describe the response as “mixed” and the Rotten Tomatoes score reflects this, as Four Brothers holds a 53% critics’ score, while audiences were much warmer, giving it an 80% audience score.
Four Brothers will stream for free on Kanopy in June.
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