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NUMBERS
Box Office: $11,509,127
VHS Rentals: $1,550,000
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CONSENSUS
Well-acted, but it's too derivative.
CAST & CREW
Vin Diesel, Seth Green, Barry Pepper
Directed by Brian Koppelman, David Levien
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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 join his dad's organization when he agrees to arrange transport of half a million dollars across the country. more...
MPAA RATING
R, violence, language, and some drug use
RUNTIME
1 hour, 34 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Oct 11, 2002
Video: Feb 25, 2003
RELEASE COMPANY
New Line Cinema
GENRE
Comedies, Action, Comedy, Drama, Violence, Mobsters
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Knockaround Guys Site
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PARENTS EVALUATION
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 "The movie takes itself too seriously and, as a result, it makes for only intermittent fun."
-- Glenn Whipp, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS
"It’s mildly interesting to ponder the peculiar American style of justice that plays out here, but it’s so muddled and derivative that few will bother thinking it all through."
-- Brian Webster, APOLLO GUIDE
"Seems content to dog-paddle in the mediocre end of the pool, and it's a sad, sick sight."
-- Phil Villarreal, ARIZONA DAILY STAR
"One long string of cliches."
-- Jeff Vice, DESERET NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY
 "...a funny yet dark and seedy clash of cultures and generations."
-- Tony Toscano, TALKING PICTURES
"Aan opportunity wasted."
-- Tor Thorsen, REEL.COM
"A pint-sized 'Goodfellas' designed to appeal to the younger set, it's not a very good movie in any objective sense, but it does mostly hold one's interest."
-- Frank Swietek, ONE GUY'S OPINION
"The next generation of mob movie. Part low rent Godfather. Part Three Stooges."
-- Chuck Schwartz, CRANKY CRITIC®
"This one is not nearly as dreadful as expected. In fact, it's quite fun in places."
-- Paul Salfen, SUPERCALA.COM
"It's Young Guns meets Goodfellas in this easily skippable hayseeds-vs.-greaseballs mob action-comedy."
-- James Rocchi, NETFLIX
"No better or worse than 'Truth or Consequences, N.M.' or any other interchangeable actioner with imbecilic Mafia toolbags botching a routine assignment in a Western backwater."
-- Jonathan R. Perry, TYLER MORNING TELEGRAPH (TEXAS)
"The sad thing about Knockaround Guys is its lame aspiration for grasping the coolness vibes when in fact the film isn’t as flippant or slick as it thinks it is."
-- Frank Ochieng, THEWORLDJOURNAL.COM
"Plodding, poorly written, murky and weakly acted, the picture feels as if everyone making it lost their movie mojo."
-- Kim Morgan, OREGONIAN
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"Fails to convince the audience that these brats will ever be anything more than losers."
-- Catharine Tunnacliffe, EYE WEEKLY
"I saw Knockaround Guys yesterday, and already the details have faded like photographs from the Spanish-American War ... It's so unmemorable that it turned my ballpoint notes to invisible ink."
-- Lawrence Toppman, CHARLOTTE OBSERVER
"Knockaround Guys plays like a student film by two guys who desperately want to be Quentin Tarantino when they grow up. But they lack their idol's energy and passion for detail."
-- Dawn Taylor, PORTLAND TRIBUNE
"I've had more interesting -- and, dare I say, thematically complex -- bowel movements than this long-on-the-shelf, point-and-shoot exercise in gimmicky crime drama."
-- Brent Simon, ENTERTAINMENT TODAY
"Guys say mean things and shoot a lot of bullets. Some of the characters die and others don't, and the film pretends that those living have learned some sort of lesson, and, really, nobody in the viewing audience cares."
-- Norm Schrager, FILMCRITIC.COM
"When the movie mixes the cornpone and the Cosa Nostra, it finds a nice rhythm."
-- Nick Rogers, STATE JOURNAL-REGISTER (SPRINGFIELD, IL)
"If Oscar had a category called Best Bad Film You Thought Was Going To Be Really Awful But Wasn't, Guys would probably be duking it out with The Queen of the Damned for the honor."
-- Jon Popick, PLANET SICK-BOY
"A pale Xerox of other, better crime movies."
-- John Patterson, L.A. WEEKLY
"...the lack of a fluid storyline prevents the film from ever becoming much more than a showcase for some really fine
acting and a lot of clever dialogue."
-- David Nusair, REEL FILM REVIEWS
"The movie generates plot points with a degree of randomness usually achieved only by lottery drawing."
-- Sean Means, SALT LAKE TRIBUNE
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ROTTEN 17%
Avg. Rating: 4.4/10 |
"One of those strained caper movies that's hardly any fun to watch and begins to vaporize from your memory minutes after it ends."
-- Stephanie Zacharek, SALON.COM
"Any one episode of The Sopranos would send this ill-conceived folly to sleep with the fishes."
-- Megan Turner, NEW YORK POST
"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."
-- Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE
"It's like a drive-by. You can drive right by it without noticing anything special, save for a few comic turns, intended and otherwise."
-- Gene Seymour, NEWSDAY
"Tiresomely derivative and hammily acted."
-- Steven Rosen, DENVER POST
"We know the plot's a little crazy, but it held my interest from start to finish."
-- Richard Roeper, EBERT & ROEPER
"It has its moments of swaggering camaraderie, but more often just feels generic, derivative and done to death."
-- Steven Rea, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
"The inevitable double- and triple-crosses arise, but the only drama is in waiting to hear how John Malkovich's reedy consigliere will pronounce his next line."
-- Ed Park, VILLAGE VOICE
"Despite 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."
-- Janice Page, BOSTON GLOBE
"Will only satisfy those who can't tell the difference between the good, the bad and the ugly."
-- Michael O'Sullivan, WASHINGTON POST
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"The film never finds its tone and several scenes run too long."
-- Maitland McDonagh, TV GUIDE'S MOVIE GUIDE
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* In fairness to critics whose last name begins with a letter at the end of the alphabet, certain pages are sorted in reverse order, z-a.
* Certain "Knockaround Guys" article data provided by the Movie Review Query Engine.
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