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THE SON OF NO ONEMovie Reviews
Crime thriller about a young cop who is threatened by old secrets when he is assigned to a precinct in the neighborhood where he grew up. Cast:Channing Tatum, Al Pacino, Juliette Binoche, Ray Liotta, Katie Holmes, Tracy MorganDirector:Dito MontielRelease Date:November 4, 2011DVD Release:February 21, 2012From:Anchor BayRating:RLength:1 hr 35 min
The Son of No One played in key cities to weak reviews. • Roger Moore wrote in the Orlando Sentinel, "It's all very messy and entirely too obvious at the same time.... the story keeps staggering into dead ends." • And Mara Reinstein wrote in Us Weekly, "What it wants to be: a gritty depiction of the NYPD. What it is: a dreary, unsatisfying mess." More Reviews Below...
The Son of No One Positive Reviews (23 Reviews, reviews below)
Mary Pols, Time: FAIR "...with competent but unexciting performances... Weaving back and forth between 1986 and 2002, it trickles out a series of revelations that aren't exactly revelatory."(See all of Mary Pols's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 546 words, 11/04/11
Mara Reinstein, Us Weekly: WEAK(cg) "What it wants to be: a gritty depiction of the NYPD. What it is: a dreary, unsatisfying mess.... The slow moving narrative only magnifies the improbability of the plot..."(See all of Mara Reinstein's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 76 words, 11/03/11
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: FAIR(cg) "Channing Tatum plays a Staten Island officer whose Big Secret is catching up with him. Yet the more that secret comes out, the more incoherent (and ludicrous) it gets."(See all of Owen Gleiberman's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 87 words, 11/04/11
Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: MODERATE(cg) "Here's a bad movie with hardly a bad scene. How can that be?... here is a gifted cast doing what it's asked to do. The failure is in the writing and editing."(See all of Roger Ebert's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 559 words, 11/04/11
James Rocchi, MSN Movies: WEAK(cg) "...fairly turgid... the elements of drama clutter up the frame so thoroughly that you'd think Montiel was sprinkling toppings on a sundae, not constructing a narrative."(See all of James Rocchi's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 748 words, 11/03/11
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NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES/CHICAGO/TORONTO (7 Reviews)
Stephen Holden, New York Times: POOR "The screenplay by Mr. Dito Montiel ('A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints') is, in a word, calamitous: his story filled with gaping holes, his dialogue laughably overheated."(See all of Stephen Holden's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 498 words, 11/04/11
Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: GOOD (NOT GREAT)(cg) "There's a real flavor to the subway-platform offices, cramped projects and rooftop sanctuaries... Montiel does a fine job of protecting, and serving, this specific city hood."(See all of Joe Neumaier's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 208 words, 11/04/11
Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: WEAK "Life is a struggle, the film makes that explicitly clear. But so is moviemaking, and unfortunately the toil is all too evident in Montiel's messy, logic-strained third feature."(See all of Robert Abele's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 259 words, 11/04/11
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: POOR(cg) "...flaunts an attitude best summed up by a cynical Pacino -- 'A man has to live with s--t.' Maybe so, Al, but audiences have the option of skipping this bomb."(See all of Lou Lumenick's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 404 words, 11/04/11
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: MODERATE(cg) "Here's a bad movie with hardly a bad scene. How can that be?... here is a gifted cast doing what it's asked to do. The failure is in the writing and editing."(See all of Roger Ebert's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 559 words, 11/04/11
Melissa Anderson, Village Voice/LA Weekly: MODERATE "Channing Tatum is touching.... the real surprise is Tracy Morgan... His portrayal of schizoaffective disorder is balm in a film suffering a similar illness."(See all of Melissa Anderson's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 210 words, 11/02/11
Stephen Whitty, New Jersey Star-Ledger: WEAK(cg) "Channing Tatum, is, as usual, little more than a well-marbled tenderloin of beefcake, looking as if he'd just been pulled out of the gym and handed a script."(See all of Stephen Whitty's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 513 words, 11/04/11
ALTERNATIVE/INDIE PRESS (6 Reviews)
Melissa Anderson, Village Voice/LA Weekly: MODERATE "Channing Tatum is touching.... the real surprise is Tracy Morgan... His portrayal of schizoaffective disorder is balm in a film suffering a similar illness."(See all of Melissa Anderson's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 210 words, 11/02/11
Katey Rich, Cinema Blend: POOR(cg) "...an utter mess that drags through its plot and manages to make its audience not care at all about two murders committed by a child."(See all of Katey Rich's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 570 words, 01/29/11
Scott Tobias, AV Club: FAIR(cg) "A few individual performances survive -- Liotta finds a little of his old edge, and Pacino briefly revisits 'Serpico' territory -- but they're smothered in the slow-burning absurdity."(See all of Scott Tobias's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 412 words, 11/03/11
Stephanie Zacharek, Movieline: MODERATE(cg) "Tatum is a better, more sensitive performer than this dud of a movie deserves, but his composure and his sturdiness go a long way toward making it watchable."(See all of Stephanie Zacharek's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 834 words, 11/03/11
R. Kurt Osenlund, Slant: GOOD (NOT GREAT)(cg) "...provides superficial enjoyment, which can only be had if paired with an appreciation for the singular muck director Dito Montiel uses to hold it together."(See all of R. Kurt Osenlund's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 660 words, 10/30/11
HIGHBROW PRESS (4 Reviews)
John Anderson, Wall Street Journal: FAIR "...part of the hang-up with Mr. Montiel's new film is that he can't let go of the past... He's stuck in the aesthetic mire of a vanished city."(See all of John Anderson's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 264 words, 11/04/11
Stephen Holden, New York Times: POOR "The screenplay by Mr. Dito Montiel ('A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints') is, in a word, calamitous: his story filled with gaping holes, his dialogue laughably overheated."(See all of Stephen Holden's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 498 words, 11/04/11
Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: WEAK "Life is a struggle, the film makes that explicitly clear. But so is moviemaking, and unfortunately the toil is all too evident in Montiel's messy, logic-strained third feature."(See all of Robert Abele's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 259 words, 11/04/11
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon: POOR "...wears you out with its relentless depiction of depravity, desperation and mental illness, its essentially romantic insistence that New York City is a bottomless moral cesspool..."(See all of Andrew O'Hehir's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 815 words, 11/02/11
MOVIE INDUSTRY (5 Reviews)
Rob Nelson, Daily Variety: FAIR "Writer/director Dito Montiel's awkward appropriation of gritty crime-drama conventions results in a film that's contrived and implausible, at times absurdly so."(See all of Rob Nelson's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 562 words, 01/26/11
John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter: MODERATE "...a buried-secret cop film with one foot planted in post-9/11 New York and another in a grittier era. Atmospheric and intriguing but not wholly satisfying..."(See all of John DeFore's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 595 words, 01/29/11
Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: WEAK "Life is a struggle, the film makes that explicitly clear. But so is moviemaking, and unfortunately the toil is all too evident in Montiel's messy, logic-strained third feature."(See all of Robert Abele's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 259 words, 11/04/11
Stephen Holden, New York Times: POOR "The screenplay by Mr. Dito Montiel ('A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints') is, in a word, calamitous: his story filled with gaping holes, his dialogue laughably overheated."(See all of Stephen Holden's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 498 words, 11/04/11
John Anderson, Wall Street Journal: FAIR "...part of the hang-up with Mr. Montiel's new film is that he can't let go of the past... He's stuck in the aesthetic mire of a vanished city."(See all of John Anderson's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 264 words, 11/04/11
13.3 Percentage Points Average Difference Between Reviews (Norm is 18.4pp; <18.4pp = More Consistent; >18.4pp = More Mixed)
The Son of No One's reviews are separated by an average 13.3 percentage points. The norm for this measure is 18.4 percentage points. Less than 18.4 indicates more consistent reviews; greater than 18.4 indicates more mixed reviews. In the chart below, each dot represents a review, with the dots at the top more positive than the dots at the bottom. From left to right, the dots represent reviews in big, bigger and biggest publications. Roll over each dot for more detail.
The Son of No One (23 reviews) Roll over dots for each review
Coverage:The Son of No One's reviews cover 50.4% of potential readers (average is 67.9%). Volume:The film's reviews total 9,785 words involume (average is 20,194 words). Length:The film's reviews average 425 words in length (the norm is 517 words).
The Son of No One Coverage, Volume & Length (23 Reviews, reviews below)
Reviews Broke 10 Days Before Release (Norm is 1.2 Release)
The Son of No One's reviews on average broke 10 days before opening. Norm for this measure is 1.2 hours before. The chart below shows reviews on opening day and the days before and after opening; the left side is earlier and the right side is later. The red bars extending above the horizontal mid-line represent more positive reviews, and the red bars extending below represent more negative reviews. The white space/red bar in the middle is The Son of No One's opening day. Click on any bar for a list of the reviews for that day.
The Son of No One (23 reviews, click on bars for reviews)
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