We Own the Night

A sign at the beginning of the church scene declares that the church is in the Diocese of Queens.

This diocese does not exist.

Queens belongs to the Diocese of Brooklyn.

During the conversation between Bobby and Amada in the hotel near the airport, we can see the time on Bobby's watch change from one shot to another.

A poster shown in the background of several squad room scenes shows the NYPD's top four CURRENT medals (Medal of Honor, Combat Cross, Medal of Valor, and Purple Shield).

The Purple Shield award was not created until 1995.

This is obviously a modern day NYPD poster.

Several of the "extra" NYPD actors in the film are shown wearing American Flag bars above their shields.

This custom did not exist in the late 1980's.

The bars were authorized during the first Gulf War as a tribute to the troops.

Bobby leaves the wall twice after hearing about his brother over the phone.

The bullet resistant vest that Bobby wears in the weeds shootout is of a contemporary design and is dark blue in color.

In 1988, the vest would have been light blue in color in order to match the NYPD uniform shirt.

NYPD police academy graduations are held at Madison Square Garden and in the late eighties, would likely have had a minimum of 2000 graduating officers.

In the film, the graduation is depicted in a much smaller venue, with only several hundred officers present.

In the scene where Joe goes to jail to pick up Vadim, the desk attendant reviews a clipboard with the prisoner's booking slip.

Vadim's photo is clearly affixed to a report with someone else's info on it (report indicates a black defendant named "Robert Anderson," among other inconsistencies).

When Bobby and Joe are at the cemetery the train that passes by in the background has American Flags on it's cars.

The flags were not introduced on the trains till after September 11, 2001.

Near the end of the movie, during the last drug bust, where the officer next to Joe gets shot you see the bullet entering the right side of his forehead but when you see him on the ground the hole is on the other side.

During the car chase in the rain, the same Oldsmobile Cutlass appears numerous times (and driving in different directions).

Deputy-Chief Bert's funeral is in a Jewish cemetery.

Hebrew writing and symbols are clearly seen on many of the grave stones.

However, the family is Polish Catholic.

When Bobby is arrested in the beginning the amount of black ink changes from when he left the club to when he went in to the jail.

In the first scene Amanda has on black stockings throughout the whole scene, then when Bobby goes to leave she is shown without the black stockings.

In a scene where Bobby and Amada are sitting on a bed, Eva Mendes is wearing a Hanes a-shirt tank top.

The label is visible through the fabric when the camera shows her back.

The "tagless" style that she is wearing was not available in 1988.

At the end of Deputy Chief Bert Grusinsky's funeral, another high-ranking police officer gives Bert's son, Captain Joe Grusinsky, a boxed medal that Bert received for his military service during the Korean War.

The officer refers to the medal as a "combat ribbon.

" However, the American armed forces have never had a medal with that title.

IN the chase/ambush scene the Chevrolet Bobby is in has hubcaps (which are in a close up) then at the height of the chase has no hubcaps, and then when the cars are stopped in the street the hubcaps have returned.

During the chase scene in the rain, the father said they were going to take his son and girlfriend to Corona.

They were at the Cue Hotel, which more than likely is actually the Kew Motor Inn, which is on Union Turnpike, just west of Main St.

Traveling from Kew Gardens, Queens to Corona there is no street scene like the one depicted in this chase scene.

At the time the father is shot and then crashes, you can make out a street sign which says E 134st and Willow Ave.

There is no E 134 st in Queens, it;s in the Bronx.

Even looking at the area, this happened along Bruckner Blvd in the South Bronx.

Also, the small bridge that was crossed, there is no such small bridge in that area of Queens, but there is in the South Bronx crossing from Bruckner Blvd over to Port Morris in the Bronx.

There are a lot of these small bridges in the South Bronx, especially crossing over to Hunt Point area from Bruckner Blvd.

There is no need to travel through the Bronx to go from Kew Gardens to Corona because the two are so close to each other.

If they did, they'd have to get on the Van Wyck Expressway, over the White Stone Bridge, South on the Bruckner Expressway, over the Triboro Bridge, along the B.

to the L.

and off the highway either at Junction Blvd or 108th St.

Without traffic, such a trip would take at well over an hour but Corona and Kew Gardens are less than 10 minutes from each other.

In the chief's office, there's an IBM model 5151 monochrome monitor sitting on top of an IBM PS2 PC.

The two are incompatible since the latter could only support a VGA monitor.

In the first scene, Bobby slides his left hand into Amada's panties, but in the next shot of him it has changed to his right, as that shoulder is moving and his left hand is at her neck.

"We Own the night" is the story of Bobby Green (Joaquin Phoenix), a nightclub manager who has chosen a life of partying, drugs and gambling which is in stark contrast to his police captain brother (Mark Wahlberg) and police chief father (Robert Duvall). As the film progresses, Bobby is forced to choose between staying loyal to his drug dealing Boss or siding with his family.

There are only so many stories that can be told but this one is so eloquently portrayed and directed. The music is great, its very brotherly and touching.

Great Phoenix, but thats not enought to cover the bad script. It started really great, the brother conflict, the poice-informer-mafia game, but the last 30 minutes are quite boring and ridiculous and let you with a lame taste in the mouth.

I came across this flick due it's title. Never heard of it I thought it was going to be a horror but what a big surprise it was.

They're Russians What do they care about this country? They might as well be on vacation.

This film drags. After a few fits and starts when you hope if finally gets going, another dull, irrelevant scene that could have been left on the cutting room floor sucks you back down.

Great performances and direction. The characters are three dimensional, not overstated and sympathetic.

****Spoilers***Spoilers*****Don't Bother Watching This Movie!!!First of all there was absolutely no reason for this to be a period piece so why bother?

A generic thriller that aims for deeper resonance, We Own The Night is an intriguing feature, undermined by a plot that stretches credulity, yet which still manages to conform to predictable gangster flick clich.