There may not be much new about director Gavin O’Connor’s cop-corruption drama, but it’s packed with enough gritty action and unf...
RogerEbert.com October 23, 2008 It follows the well-worn pathways of countless police dramas before it.
Toronto Star October 24, 2008 There’s nothing really wrong with Pride and Glory, apart from an excessive degree of brutality, but there’s nothing terribly revelatory...
It’s yet another movie about familial strife in the New York City Police Department. If you think you’ve seen it all before, you have.
detnews.com October 24, 2008 Not that the movie’s a knockout by any means. But it does bring enough integrity, good acting and old-fashioned mean street snarl to the...
Austin Chronicle October 23, 2008 Pride and Glory lacks the right stuff to pierce the thin blue line.
Hard to watch, hard to listen to and hard to follow.
New York Post October 24, 2008 When the writers went to the Dialogue Store, it must have been closed because they loaded their cart from whatever they found in the Dumpster out b...
The dirty-cop drama Pride and Glory overshoots the mark by spinning its implausible, hyperviolent tale around too tight a family circle.
Granted, the opening scenes are a shaky-cam chaos. Mawkishness and bleating illogic plague the endgame. But I might have forgiven even that ha...
ReelViews October 22, 2008 It wants to be different; yet, in the end, the elements that separate this police corruption film from those with similar themes and subjects are t...
the decision to film Farrell and Norton climactically duking it out in a bar called Irish Eyes with diddle-di-deedle-di music playing on the j...
Independent November 7, 2008 This bad-apple cop drama is the kind of movie that Sidney Lumet used to make in the Seventies and Eighties, and it hasn’t evolved a grea...
Pride and Glory is more than just lousy; it’s an amalgam of every bad tendency of the current cinema, stitched together into a single 125-min...
Guardian November 7, 2008 A detonation of flatulent, macho-sentimental gibberish is what this ugly and violent film positively farts out of the screen at you.
Arizona Republic October 23, 2008 There’s nothing new about the film, including its basic problem: a cast of talented actors cut off at the knees by stilted, cliched writing.
metro.co.uk November 7, 2008 Credible scenes alternate with cliché-ridden ones and, while Norton is excellent, Farrell looks ready to cringe at his dialogue.
Pride and Glory definitely stirs up some drama. But the script doesn’t serve the drama well.
Boston.com October 24, 2008 Director Gavin O’Connor and co-screenwriter Joe Carnahan take a perfectly fine B-movie premise and slow it down to an A-movie pace; in t...
calendarlive.com October 24, 2008 A plodding, formulaic police drama bathed in bluish light, Pride and Glory displays very little of either.
Slant Magazine October 22, 2008 Pride and Glory’s commentary on law enforcement vice and decency is far less immediate and realistic than its gritty aesthetic and tone would...
Orlando Sentinel October 22, 2008 What we’re left with isn’t an embarrassment, but isn’t anything for this proud cast to glory in, either.
Financial Times November 7, 2008 Pride and Glory is NYPD cop hokum, overcooked and undercharacterised. The time is out of joint, but in films such as this another joint is always t...
While its kinetic appeal does have a numbing – if temporary effect – on your critical faculties, television has been much more succe...
A tightly acted and emotionally bruising corrupt-cop family drama that feels like the kind of serious, slow-burn NYPD movie nobody – not even...
