It's Young Guns meets Goodfellas in this easily skippable hayseeds-vs.-greaseballs mob action-comedy.
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10/11/02
Knockaround Guys (2002)
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Reviews Counted:97
Fresh:19
Rotten:78
Average Rating:4.3/10
Consensus: Well-acted, but it's too derivative.
Runtime: 1 hr 34 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Matty (Barry Pepper) is the only son of Brooklyn mobster Benny "the Chains" (Dennis Hopper). Considered too sensitive for mob work, but unable to find a regular job, Matty finally gets a chance to... [More]
Starring: Vin Diesel, Seth Green, Barry Pepper, Andrew Davoli
Director: Brian Koppelman, David Levien
Reviews for Knockaround Guys
Although Knockaround Guys has the trimmed-down look of a studio trying to cut its losses, the movie plays like an entertaining B Western
10/11/02
It's so derivative that it's almost shocking, considering the guys behind Guys are Rounders writers Brian Koppelman and David Levien.
10/11/02
Just don't go expecting anything to truly knock you upside the head and you should be okay.
10/11/02
Trying to sound like The Sopranos, it never registers above a bass baritone; far from Goodfellas, these fellas barely make it to below-average.
10/11/02
Any one episode of The Sopranos would send this ill-conceived folly to sleep with the fishes.
10/11/02
You can't fault the actors, but we've been over this ground so many times that our tolerance for one more deadpan, low-life comedy has been all but exhausted.
10/11/02
The movie crosses two formulas -- Fish Out of Water and Coming of Age -- fairly effectively.
10/11/02
Top CriticThe movie generates plot points with a degree of randomness usually achieved only by lottery drawing.
10/11/02
Seems content to dog-paddle in the mediocre end of the pool, and it's a sad, sick sight.
10/11/02
Not a great movie, but it was entertaining.
10/11/02
Demonstrates what it could be when Noonan struts on-screen with his careful reptilian gait.
10/11/02
One of those strained caper movies that's hardly any fun to watch and begins to vaporize from your memory minutes after it ends.
10/10/02
Aan opportunity wasted.
10/10/02
It has its moments of swaggering camaraderie, but more often just feels generic, derivative and done to death.
10/10/02
What keeps this turkey from reaching even a minimum level of entertainment is the studied, melodramatic tone that the filmmakers achieve.
10/10/02
The action is bloody and brutal. Mr. Diesel is effective as Matty's muscle. But when it comes to father, sons and mob life, stick to The Godfather.
10/10/02
Top CriticKnockaround Guys works well when it tries to be funny, and falls flat on its face when the bullets fly.
10/10/02
A wannabe mob movie about wannabe mobsters that doesn’t know whether it’s a comedy or a drama, but does very definitely know that either way, it’s about Vin Diesel beating the living crap out of people.
10/10/02
There are so many terrific mob-related movies and TV shows out there that you shouldn't waste your time on this sort of subpar effort.
10/10/02
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