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The Son of No One
2011
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The Son of No One
Positive Reviews
6
Negative reviews
17
Average Rating
2.1
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2.5
It doesnt help that Channing Tatum, Montiels star and muse from his earlier films, A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints and Fighting, has trouble with i ..
Av Club
2.0
A few individual performances surviveLiotta finds a little of his old edge, and Pacino briefly revisits Serpico territorybut theyre smothered in the s ..
Av Club
3.0
Yet the more that secret comes out, the more incoherent (and ludicrous) the film gets.
EW
2.0
Its hard to believe that a boy could kill two grown men, and its even harder to believe that Jonathan would spend every second brooding about it.
Common Sense Media
3.1
Its a movie recommended for those in search of a fine, satisfying mess.
1.5
Tatum doesnt bring much beyond dark moodiness to his role and Pacino isnt on screen long enough to make a substantial mark.
Screen Daily
2.5
Montiel does a skilful job intertwining the past and present action but the plot always feels thin and the characters underdeveloped.
Screen Daily
3.0
Atmospheric and intriguing but not wholly satisfying, it has enough genre appeal and star power to sell some tickets but may not benefit from word of ..
The Hollywood Reporter
2.5
Heres a bad movie with hardly a bad scene. How can that be The construction doesnt flow. The story doesnt engage.
Rogerebert
2.0
And I have to hand it to them the crowd stayed remarkably steady through the film, unlike the reports of But Son of No One isnt just a bizarre choice ..
Cinema Blend
3.0
This is a real shame, as it truly ruins what had been a damn good film up to that point.
JoBlo
1.9
Channing Tatum (left), Al Pacino in The Son of No One, a muddled cop thriller.Al Pacino, Juliette Binoche, Katie Holmes, Ray Liotta, Channing Tatum, T ..
Philly
2.5
But, as in the directors previous work, some terrific acting emerges from the absurd script.
Village Voice
1.9
The sort of movie Channing Tatum made BEFORE Magic Mike and Jump Street.
Rogers Movie Nation
1.3
The Films of Dito Montiel A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (March 18/07) Though infused with an evocative and downright authentic vibe by first time ..
Reel Film Reviews
2.0
Muddled cop thriller The Son of No One has a top drawer cast and a bottom drawer script.
Cs Monitor
1.3
The latest star filled fiasco passing a contractually mandated week on a rental screen between its Sundance premiere and arrival on DVD, the third fil ..
New York Post
2.5
You can see why actors want to work with Montiel, but actors are notoriously bad judges of whether good scenes will ever add up to a worthwhile movie, ..
Salon
0.5
The Son of No One makes me feel like a teacher whose student has very obviously plagiarized their final paper of the semester.
Movies
2.3
These questions might not feel so pressing if Liotta werent giving another ridiculously over the top performance to try to enhance the relatively weak ..
1.9
It doesnt even feel like a film, let alone a movie.It just feels like a mess.
Nj
2.0
As the single character everything revolves around in the endless flashback flashforward pattern, the pairing is a major cause of a film disaster with ..
Varia Gate
2.5
** (out of four) Apparently nobody in The Son of No One has heard of self defense and accidents.
Red Eye Chicago
2.0
Feature as a whole feels fogged, attempting to communicate a persistence of shame in the most scattered, accommodating manner imaginable. In other wor ..
Brian Or Ndorf
4.3
Even at a running time of nearly 2 hours, Cherkess still manages to be a sweeping and captivating film that offers both style and substance.
Nyc Movie Guru
2.0
Its messy when it needs to be engaging; choppy when it needs to draw us in.
Hollywood Chicago
1.0
And there still museums with pay what you wish admission, if not every day, then on certain days weekly or monthly.You just have to know who offers wh ..
New York Time Out
1.5
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New York Metro Mix
3.0
Every scene is wrung dry for every bit of emotion, and even if that emotion never once rings true, even if the story doesnt make sense, even if every ..
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