Stand Up Guys Reviews

It's hardly great, but it's refreshingly old school.

Full Review | Original Score: 86/100

There's something about Stand Up Guys that's both brilliant and poignant.

Full Review | Original Score: 6.5/10

...to watch Al Pacino overact with such a deficient script and lackluster directing is agony no moviegoer should be required to endure.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/10

One of the tiredest movies ever associated with those three actors.

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Stevens' second feature proves unexpectedly thoughtful and affecting, thanks in large part to virtuoso interplay between its leads.

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There are no real surprises and not a lot of drama in Stand Up Guys, but since the actors not delivering the goods are septuagenarians Christopher Walken, Al Pacino and Alan Arkin, you're in for a show nonetheless.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Thematic inconsistencies abound as Stevens aims for a tone somewhere between Grumpy Old Men, The Hangover, and Goodfellas.

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For a film about coming to terms with death, Stand Up Guys is funnier than you might expect, and never once sinks into sentimental treacle.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

Throw in Alan Arkin and this would seem to be a promising premise, but the dialogue didn't click and the film just meanders through it's one evening.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

If it wasn't for the talent on screen I may have been bored by this, but hey, you hired these guys for a reason, right?

Full Review | Original Score: 2.9/5

The film moves at a geriatric pace to match the age of the protagonists and the target audience.

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Wobbly and contrived: given that cast, it could have and should have been so much better.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10

Some actors don't need top-shelf material. Just the pleasure of their company is enough. And so Al Pacino, Christopher Walken and Alan Arkin turn the insubstantial Stand Up Guys into solid entertainment.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

There's not much to the story beyond its thin conceit, so the filmmaker relies on his stars' charms. Even when it comes to Oscar winners, that approach only gets you so far.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

It's just fun to watch Pacino, Walken and Arkin work together, very much enjoying the shared experience. Seeing Stand Up Guys is an offer you could easily refuse, but hey, why fight it?

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Predictability in a film is a major offense, but the real crime in "Stand Up Guys" is the squandering of the talented cast assembled.

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It's Walken's deadpan style vs. Pacino's bombastic, loud, often obnoxious behavior, but it works for me.

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Stand Up Guys needs a Grumpy Old Men-ectomy, stat.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

Stand Up Guys gets caught up in stereotypical old-timer laughs but its principal cast shakes them off and ultimately makes the experience fulfilling.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Noah Haidle's screenplay doesn't offer many surprises, but every scene is imbued with a flavor that only actors of this caliber-and history-can provide.

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