You get to decide on your pals, however you don’t get to decide on your loved ones. In Ibrahim Mada and Jordan Charles’ dramatic thriller Brothers in Arms, the bonds of a brotherhood weigh heavy like a hangman’s noose.
Nick (Jordan Charles) and Leon (Vic Bagratuni) are brothers separated as kids not lengthy after the dying of their mom. Nick was heartbroken as a boy, however due to Leon’s violent tendencies, their household thought it was greatest to separate the 2.
Decades later, Nick is an LAPD officer and has been on the hunt for the infamous mobster Don Guerra (Peter Lucas). But everybody on the drive is aware of that Nick must be on the lookout for Guerra’s mysterious right-hand man, often known as the Lion. What Nick doesn’t know is the one one who can lead him to the Lion is his estranged convict father, which, in flip, will lead him to misplaced brother Leon.
“…Nick has been on the hunt for the infamous mobster Don Guerra…[he] must be on the lookout for Guerra’s mysterious right-hand man…”
Brothers in Arms is a gritty crime drama about household. The movie follows Nick’s story as a person obsessive about discovering closure to the open wound he has been carrying since childhood and never realizing that the trail to therapeutic goes straight right into a gang conflict on the streets of Los Angeles.
Shot and paced within the fashion of movie noir, Jordan Charles carries us by way of Nick’s story because the stand-up police detective whose life slowly unravels with the information of his brother Leon setting off a collection of occasions that reduce Nick to the core personally and professionally. Let’s simply say that the household reunion isn’t precisely a contented second.
Directors Mada and Charles chart Nick’s emotional path fantastically and seize the proper darkish tones of Nick’s downward spiral. Brothers in Arms is a proof of idea for a characteristic movie and builds to a correct cliffhanger, leaving you questioning what’s going to occur subsequent.
For screening info, go to the Brothers in Arms official web site.
