The Son of No One (2011)
Average Rating: 3.9/10
Reviews Counted: 35
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 29
Needless stylistic flourishes and wholly illogical storytelling make The Son of No One a grisly, repugnant journey.
Average Rating: 3.4/10
Critic Reviews: 15
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 12
Needless stylistic flourishes and wholly illogical storytelling make The Son of No One a grisly, repugnant journey.
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A young cop is assigned to a precinct in the working class neighborhood where he grew up, and an old secret threatens to destroy his life and his family. -- (C) Anchor Bay
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Cast
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Al Pacino
Detective Charles Stanf... -
Channing Tatum
Jonathan 'Milk' White, ... -
James Ransone
Officer Thomas Prudenti -
Ray Liotta
Captain Marion Mathers -
Katie Holmes
Kerry White -
Ursula Parker
Charlotte 'Charlie' Whi... -
Brian Gilbert
Young Vinnie, Young Vin... -
Tracy Morgan
Vincent Carter (Adult) -
Jake Cherry
Jonathan 'Milk' White (... -
Simone Jones
Young Vicky -
Juliette Binoche
Lauren Bridges, Loren B... -
Lemon Anderson
Geronimo -
Roger Guenveur Smith
Hanky -
Michael Rivera
Dominican Nada Puerto R... -
Sean Cregan
Martinez -
Karen Christie Ward
Olive Oil -
Peter Tambakis
Dispatcher Numnuts -
Marilyn Dobrin
Grandma White -
Decorte Snipes
Adult Vicky -
Craig Walker
Other Cop -
Johnnie Mae
Vinny's Mother -
Oberon K.A. Adjepong
Vinny's Mother's Boyfri... -
Malik Cherry
Kid #1 -
Tevon Flemming
Kid #2 -
Tony Vasquez
Hector J. Uhuyes -
Pat Kiernan
News Reporter #1 -
Gisella Marango
News Reporter #2 -
Ralph Rodriguez
Young Latino -
George James
Grandpa -
Paul Poplawski
Officer Pregnant Bitch -
Michelle Walnum
News Reporter Walnum -
Iesha Richardson
Top Floor Aisha -
Dito Montiel
Vomit Bum
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All Critics (36) | Top Critics (16) | Fresh (6) | Rotten (30) | DVD (2)
Muddled cop thriller The Son of No One has a top-drawer cast and a bottom-drawer script.
Top CriticLife is a struggle, the new film "The Son of No One" makes that explicitly clear. But so is moviemaking, and unfortunately the toil is all too evident in writer-director Dito Montiel's messy, logic-strained third feature.
It just feels like a mess.
A laughable police melodrama.
"The Son of No One" self-destructs in a ludicrous, ineptly directed anticlimactic rooftop showdown in which bodies pile up, and nothing makes a shred of sense.
Something is lacking in the dramatic equation.
The sort of movie Channing Tatum made BEFORE "Magic Mike" and "Jump Street."
A dull, barely coherent cop movie gets a decent Blu-ray transfer. Skip it.
A film disaster with more loose ends than granny's wig.
Montiel constantly over-directs and over-edits, underlining certain points that have already been made clear. It's gritty and moody, but with little dramatic effect.
The Son of No One makes me feel like a teacher whose student has very obviously plagiarized their final paper of the semester.
a high pitched melodrama
A complex, unpredictable and exhilarating crime thriller that's just as suspenseful and captivating as The Departed.
It's messy when it needs to be engaging; choppy when it needs to draw us in.
Feature as a whole feels fogged, attempting to communicate a persistence of shame in the most scattered, accommodating manner imaginable. In other words, it's a typical Dito Montiel motion picture.
A dreary, pointless, stylistically blowsy film...rendered all but unintelligible by Montiel's messy technique and chaotic narrative choices.
Montiel does a skilful job intertwining the past and present action but the plot always feels thin and the characters underdeveloped.
The flashbacks to [Channing] Tatum's late '80s childhood are embarrassingly overwrought -- including some of the worst acting of [Al] Pacino's career.
Audience Reviews for The Son of No One
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- Detective Charles Stanford: Next time we meet you will be a man. And a man has to learn to live with it.
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- Captain Marion Mathers: Whoever is writing these letters, seems to be interested in everyone but the actual killers.
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