10 April 2012
In writer-director Will Canon’s first film, a group of Texan fraternity pranksters make their juniors rob a faked-up convenience store for the paltry sum of 19 dollars and 10 cents.
The initiation ritual goes badly wrong when one of the juniors gets shot in a real store and the senior boys prevent him reaching hospital. The question is whether Adam, the junior played by Trevor Morgan, will split on the deal to the police.
The pace is fast and furious, and everyone shouts a lot but the characters are mostly one-dimensional; the more desperate things get, the more you want to pick holes in the whole thing. At least this is a lively debut, well shot mostly at night.
Brotherhood
