Perry Kate Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Titreenp SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

Rijndri Load of rubbish!!

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

calebm7 This movie is a representation of James Mitchell's Justification for for first degree murder of Artie Mitchell. Artie was not murdered because he had a drug problem. Artie was murdered as a power move for his brother to take control of all the brothers finances. This movie was awful because it helped a murderer look good while depicting the deceased as a wild crazed lunatic. Personal I feel Artie Mitchell's character better resembled a mixture between James and Karen's personalities. This movie seemed to be an accurate representation of the utter chaos in the last two weeks of Art's life. This movie was based on a story written by David Mccumber who wrote a Rated X based on the testimonials of Artie's Ex-Girlfriends, his mother and his murderer. I Caleb Mitchell feel slandered but apparently my dad was a public figure, so anyone can say anything, it doesn't matter

Coventry This film kind of is Emilio Estevez' comeback after a dreadfully slow decade of kiddies' stuff and inferior TV-productions. Estevez and his brother Charlie Sheen portray the Mitchell brothers, Jim and Arnie. From the early 70's until the early 90's these boys ruled the Californian porn industry and opened their own San Franciscan nudie theater and strip club. As usual in this type of biopic films, we first get to see a whole series of highlights (like their big breakthrough porn film 'Beyond the Green Door') before the 'drama' kicks in. Both brothers put industrial amounts of dope up their noses and their relationships all go to hell. This isn't an immensely impressive film because you've all seen it before – slightly better – in epics like 'Boogie Nights' or even 'The People vs. Larry Flint'. Still it's worthwhile thanks to the performances of Estevez, Sheen and a few members of the supportive cast like Terry O'Quin (The Stepfather) as Mitchell senior. If you're a fan of Sheen or Estevez (or both) this is definitely worth a peek. They both look deliciously rancid. Not highly memorable, but amusing while it lasts…which is a bit too long by the way.

Jose Smirnoff This movie had potential. Maybe not as much potential as Boogie Nights, but potential nonetheless. What really killed this movie for me was the fact that Emilio Estevez tried WAY to hard to be some kind of avant garde director, with fancy angles and cut shots throughout the entire picture. It did nothing more than make me nauseaus.As far as acting, Estevez and Sheen did a fairly decent job of portraying the Mitchell Brothers, however, in the end, the movie doesn't work mainly because they simply just touched on a few of the major events and focused instead on the drugs, which wasn't even very interesting in the first place.There was a reason this movie was on Showtime and not released in major theatres.

delerius I caught this movie on a movie channel not knowing what it was, never even heard about it or the Mitchell brothers. And to tell you the truth I didn't expect very much of it. I have always considered Charlie Sheen to be a quite bad actor and can you name one single movie Emilio Estevez has made since young guns? But to my pleasant surprise the movie turned out to be pretty good. Ok it was a bit slow sometimes, but overall it's a quite interesting story about 2 brothers rise and fall. To bad that both of them lost it and messed everything up, but hey, you can't change a story that is based on a true story, right? I give this movie 3 points out of 5 possible. These brothers life caught my attention I will definitely read the book now.