[5][6] Released on August 12, 2005, the film received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $92 million worldwide.

During their investigation of the crime of what seems to be a simple robbery gone wrong, they discover that it was a cover for a hit put out on Evelyn after interrogating the witness who turned out to be involved.

The brothers track down the pair of hired guns who shot and killed Evelyn, and when they refuse to give up any information, they are executed by the enraged Bobby and Angel.

While the brothers deny involvement, Lieutenant Green warns them that their interference with Evelyn's case is ill-advised and that it would put them in over their heads.

After they walk out of the bar, knowing Green will arrest him, Fowler kills him and makes dispatch believe two black assailants had fired upon them.

The three brothers, taken into police custody, are beaten in an attempt to make them confess to the murder of Sweet but give up nothing, and were eventually released.

The music for the film includes, in a repeating refrain, the song "I Wish It Would Rain", written by Norman J. Whitfield, Barrett Strong and Rodger L. Penzabene, Sr., and performed by The Temptations, courtesy of Motown Records.

The site's critics consensus reads: "Despite striking a believable rapport among its principal actors, Four Brothers overwhelms with ultra-violent, vigilante-glorifying action and devolves into too many fractured, insubstantial thematic directions.

[11] In a 2020 post on his Instagram page, Tyrese Gibson claimed a script for a sequel, Five Brothers, is in the works.