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They didn’t kill him. That would’ve been too easy, too clean. Instead, they delivered him—bound, beaten, and with a full confession recorded—to the precinct where a honest detective had been waiting for years to make a case stick. Victor Sweet got life without parole.

A hero is only as good as his villain, and Four Brothers features a menacing adversary in Victor Sweet, played with terrifying calm by Chiwetel Ejiofor. Four Brothers -2005-

—the only one with a legitimate life, a wife, a mortgage, a conscience—paced the concrete floor. “We can’t just go to war over a feeling.” They didn’t kill him

rounds out the quartet as the sensitive, artistic youngest brother. Jack is the audience surrogate in many ways; he is softer, less inclined to violence, and clearly traumatized by the world. Hedlund’s performance provides the emotional bruising that makes the brothers’ protective instincts kick in. Victor Sweet got life without parole