This heist flick about young Brooklyn hoods is off the shelf after two years to capitalize on the popularity of Vin Diesel, Seth Green and Barry Pepper. It should have stayed there.
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11/19/02
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Knockaround Guys (2002)
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Reviews Counted:24
Fresh:4
Rotten:20
Average Rating:4.3/10
Consensus: Well-acted, but it's too derivative.
Theatrical Release:Oct 11, 2002 Wide
Box Office: $11,509,127
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
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Reviews for Knockaround Guys
Top CriticPerhaps if co-directors David Levien and Brian Koppelman had spent more time devising a coherent vision for the film, we would not have felt as knocked around after watching it.
10/19/02
Top CriticWe know the plot's a little crazy, but it held my interest from start to finish.
10/14/02
Top CriticWill only satisfy those who can't tell the difference between the good, the bad and the ugly.
10/11/02
Top CriticA guilty pleasure.
10/11/02
Top CriticLackluster.
10/11/02
Top CriticIt's like a drive-by. You can drive right by it without noticing anything special, save for a few comic turns, intended and otherwise.
10/11/02
Top CriticThere's nothing in the half-comic, half-serious Knockaround Guys you can't see weekly in The Sopranos.
10/11/02
Top CriticOf interest only to male viewers who are addicts of Scorsese-meets -Tarantino gangster-life frolics.
10/11/02
Top CriticTiresomely derivative and hammily acted.
10/11/02
Top CriticDespite engaging offbeat touches, Knockaround Guys rarely seems interested in kicking around a raison d'etre that's as fresh-faced as its young-guns cast.
10/11/02
Top CriticAlthough 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
Top CriticTrying 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
Top CriticAny one episode of The Sopranos would send this ill-conceived folly to sleep with the fishes.
10/11/02
Top CriticYou 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
Top CriticThe movie crosses two formulas -- Fish Out of Water and Coming of Age -- fairly effectively.
10/11/02
Top CriticOne 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
Top CriticIt has its moments of swaggering camaraderie, but more often just feels generic, derivative and done to death.
10/10/02
Top CriticThe 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 CriticEven when the film turns serious, the filmmakers can't make up their minds about what kind of movie they're making.
10/10/02
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