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Mary Pols, Time: FAIR "...filled 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." (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..." (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) the film gets." (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." (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." (Read the full review...) 748 words, 11/03/11
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." (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 captured here. Montiel does a fine job of protecting, and serving, this specific city hood." (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 Dito Montiel's messy, logic-strained third feature." (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." (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." (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." (Read the full review...) 210 words, 11/02/11
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: WEAK (cg) "...this heavy-handed muddle of a cop thriller is just impossibly bad." (Read the full review...) 233 words, 11/04/11 Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: WEAK (cg) "It's all very messy and entirely too obvious at the same time.... the story keeps staggering into dead ends." (Read the full review...) 373 words, 10/07/11 Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: POOR (cg) "Writer/director Dito Montiel has assembled a strong cast, but his film is a flop. It's a dud. It's a flud." (Read the full review...) 149 words, 11/04/11 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." (Read the full review...) 513 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." (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." (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." (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." (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." (Read the full review...) 660 words, 10/30/11
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 can't let flashbacks be flashbacks and move his story along the contemporary track where it belongs." (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." (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 Dito Montiel's messy, logic-strained third feature." (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..." (Read the full review...) 815 words, 11/02/11
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." (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..." (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 Dito Montiel's messy, logic-strained third feature." (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." (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 can't let flashbacks be flashbacks and move his story along the contemporary track where it belongs." (Read the full review...) 264 words, 11/04/11
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