Film Review – Half Brothers

In 2014, director Luke Greenfield scored a surprise box office success with “Let’s Be Cops,” which offered coarse entertainment to audiences happy to have it. Returning to screens six years later (a bizarre career gap), Greenfield tries the softer route to laughs with “Half Brothers,” which has its moments of slapstick, but ultimately wants to become a sensitive study of forgiveness and sibling bonding. Greenfield isn’t someone interested in boosting his helming creativity, going on autopilot for the feature, following a limp screenplay by Jason Shuman and Eduardo Cisneros that tries to deliver an opposites attract idea with road trip trimmings, but doesn’t get anywhere emotionally with the writing, and ideas for funny stuff are often unbearable. Nobody’s trying all that hard with “Half Brothers,” with digestibility the goal here, not hilarity. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com