Brothers Tops Amazon Prime: Is This Number 1 Flick Worth Your Time?

Amazon Prime has released a crime comedy from the creator of Palm Springs, starring Josh Brolin and Peter Dinklage as twins and Glenn Close as their mother. Brothers has already become the most watched movie on the streaming service, taking the number one spot, but is it really that good?

What Is Brothers About?

Moke and Jady Munger are twins who have dedicated most of their lives to petty crime, until Jady gets caught in yet another robbery. Five years later, he is paroled after conspiring with a corrupt prison official.

Moke, meanwhile, has quit crime, found a wife, and is about to become a father, but he agrees to help his brother when he calls him in for what he calls his last job, a small one. Little does Moke know that the job involves diamonds that Mama Munger stole decades ago, abandoning her sons in the process.

Even the Brolin and Dinklage Duo Can't Save This Comedy

Brolin and Dinklage, playing twins, are one of those posters that are hard to miss. But even without them, there are a lot of interesting names here, not only actors.

Director Max Barbakow made his big debut with the film Palm Springs, and writer Macon Blair is a gifted and versatile writer, actor, director, and constant collaborator of Jeremy Saulnier.

With such a concentration of talent, it seemed that something worthwhile, or at least memorable, should have resulted. Brothers is a movie not without merits, but unfortunately, it is difficult to call it both worthwhile and memorable.

The Only Interesting Detail Is the Relationship Dynamic Between the Brothers

The authors can be praised for the fact that the difference in the brothers' appearance is surprisingly not played up in any special way, with the exception of a few minor moments. Moreover, Barbakow and Blair do not avoid cheap jokes, but here they decided to draw the line, and this is a good idea.

Of course, Dinklage's character with his luxurious horseshoe mustache is the more brutal of the two, and Brolin's character is a bit of a wimp.

Brendan Fraser plays a cartoonish villain who rolls his eyes and says something villainous all the time. Marisa Tomei has a bright little role as Jady's prison pen pal, a sort of Phoebe Buffay if her life had turned out a little differently, away from Central Park.

Brothers Is a Movie You See Once and Immediately Forget

The comedy feels forced and often just less funny than it should be. Attempts to add some color are thwarted by the sentimentality of the family squabbles. The plot twists are obvious since they have already been used in a hundred similar movies.

So if you wanted to spend the evening watching Brothers, just keep in mind that this movie fully deserves its 37% and 46% on Rotten Tomatoes.