Grand Theft Auto IV
Genre: Crime/Action/Drama
Director: Taylor Sheridan
Writer: Mo Buck
Based on the video game series
Cast: Sebastian Stan, Cameron Britton, Trevante Rhodes, Stephanie Beatriz, Joe Cole, Micheal Ward, Imogen Poots, Ashton Sanders, Pilou Asbaek, Alison Oliver
Budget: $100,000,000
Domestic Box Office: $100,472,059
Foreign Box Office: $102,099,780
Total Profit: $9,676,226
"Grand Theft Auto IV succeeds more as a moody immigrant crime drama than a traditional action adaptation, though its ambition occasionally outweighs its execution. Taylor Sheridan brings grit and emotional heaviness to Liberty City, even if the plotting can feel episodic and some supporting players are underserved. Sebastian Stan is okay as Niko, but the film’s emotional center belongs to Cameron Britton, whose Roman is warm, funny, and genuinely heartbreaking. His performance gives the story stakes beyond the violence." - Cooper Wilson, The Earl Hays Press
"While the movie is missing much of the satirical commentary the games are known for, this adaptation makes the American Dream feel like a threat again. A rich haunting performance by Stan and Asbaek was born to play Dimitri. It occasionally struggles to balance the espionage subplots with its street level grit, but as a meditation of the trauma of war following you across the ocean, its a powerhouse of a film." - J. Jonah Johnson, Variety
"Despite flashes of atmosphere, Grand Theft Auto IV struggles with messy plotting, thin villains, and major miscasting. Sebastian Stan is a talented actor, but he feels far too polished and conventionally handsome to convincingly embody Niko Bellic—a hardened, weathered survivor shaped by war and poverty. The film also rushes through relationships and criminal factions so quickly that Dimitri and Playboy X never develop into compelling antagonists, instead feeling like checkpoints in an overstuffed story." - Dave Manning, Ridgefield Press
Rated R for violence, language, drug content, and sexual content
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