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Monday 20 October 2014

KNOCKAROUND GUYS [2001]

Brian Koppelman & David Levien co-write & direct Knockaround Guys, a run-of-the-mill crime-drama that seems to set out to have the same body count by it's last reel as Reservoir Dogs did.
A mobster's son and his second-rate criminal friends botch up an important job that finds them in some buttfuck nowhere middle American town, which ultimately leads to some heated intereactions.  It is interesting to see the many different levels of organized crime but that's where anything even remotely engaging ends.  The dialogue is laughably clichéd, the characters are wooden and the plot is a muddled mess that could only lead in one direction.  If not for the reasonably entertaining cast I might have turned this one off pretty quickly.

2 bar brawls out of 5

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