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Review: Stand Up Guys
Sometimes I take for granted the idea of earning moments. If a filmmaker wants you to feel something, he or she needs to make you touch it without taking shortcuts. It’s all about attempt and honesty, because earning moments means that those moments don’t feel forced (or worse, manipulative) when they arrive. You’re too lost in the story to notice the machinery that got you there.
Watching Stand Up Guys made me realize why earning moments is so significant. The movie shifts between high comedy and life-or-death drama multiple times. It wants you to ponder friendship, age, love, death, and loneliness while also making you laugh at a few boner jokes. This is a tricky balance.
The problem: nothing in Stand Up Guys is earned.
Stand Up Guys
Director: Fisher Stevens
Rating: R
Release Date: February 1, 2013
The show starts promisingly enough. Child Huey’s “Hard Times” plays over an opening credits montage of Val (Al Pacino) getting out of jail while his buddy Doc (Christopher Walken) goes to pick him up. It’s a reunion between
A pair of aging stickup men endeavor to get the old gang endorse together for one last hurrah before one of the guys takes his last assignment - to kill his comrade.A pair of aging stickup men try to acquire the old gang back together for one last hurrah before one of the guys takes his last assignment - to murder his comrade.A pair of aging stickup men try to get the ancient gang back together for one last hurrah before one of the guys takes his last assignment - to kill his comrade.
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Totally Entertaining
I'm not one who often writes reviews and I had absolutely no idea what to expect from this Movie. What can I declare - Pacino was Spectacular and Walken is - good, he's Walken. As brilliant as he was in The Deer Hunter. The Duo make a stunning and very humorous Duo and certain parts of the Movie will definitely have you in stitches. I'm not going to say anything about the plot but I highly suggest this Movie to any potential Viewers. Filled with Witty Humour and acute Sarcasm, the Film tends to obtain one thinking about different aspects of Life. A Enjoyable Movie - and though a bit slow, I was fixed on the Screen. Pa
Stand Up Guys
Stephen Smith
This is not an Oscar worthy performance from any of these guys. But it is fun, interesting, and extremely well acted. Every time Pacino steps on the screen, people await Scarface or The Godfather. They had fun. Classic Walken lines throughout. Worth the money.
Paul Townley
I loved the deadpan, matter of fact humor of the three stars. This show is touching and, at times, laugh-out-loud funny. Some crude, but hysterical moments. Strongly recommended.
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Skyla Saldana
Yeah I thought it was an OK movie... very entertaining. And it's very inexpensive to rent, Red Box $1.20 / Blu ray$1.50. Redbox is definitely the way to move for renting any fresh DVD or Blu ray disc before you determine to purchase.
Sometimes it’s all about the casting. The notice of a screening came around, I read the names Al Pacino, Christopher Walken and Alan Arkin, and it didn’t matter in a way what the movie was about — although it didn’t injure that it was a crime movie.
Apart from any objective ranking of the actors, Walken is a spice in any screenplay, and in “Stand Up Guys,” there’s room for at least as much spice as goulash. Director Fisher Stevens begins with a permissive screenplay by Noah Haidle that exists in no particular city, for no particular reason other than to give the actors the pleasure of riffing through more or less typical set-pieces.
Consider first the urban area. I know where it was filmed, but that information is a distraction. This is a generic city. A city fond of the city in “Sunrise,” which feathers out into shadows and defeat. It is hardly even populated. In a plot that takes the guys into the night and the next morning, the characters seem to be nighthawks, framed by an void space. They hang out in a diner with hardly any customers, they drive on streets with hardly any cars, and when they visit a brothel, hardly anyone seems to c
A whimsical, half-formed paean to criminal fraternity, Stand Up Guys brings together Al Pacino, Christopher Walken and Alan Arkin as retired gangsters who, against the backdrop of an impending assassination, reunite for a unrestrained night of drugs, booze and women, with a sprinkle of reflection on aging and loyalty. Its synopsis may summon contemplations of a gangland Grumpy Old Men, but the first produced screenplay of playwright Noah Haidle, unfolding over the course of one nighttime, cycles through too many haphazard and improbable set-ups to amount to anything more than a collection of signed offer sheets in search of a movie. This is the shaggy, cinematic equivalent of a greatest-shtick collection, dragged into watchability only through the lively interplay and accrued goodwill of its leads.
Pacino tackles the lascivious Val with a gleeful discard , variously recalling his characters from Scent Of A Woman and even (a bit) The Devil’s Advocate. Walken and Arkin, meanwhile, well… they’re rascally and dryly sardonic.
Receiving a targeted limited unleash on around 700 screens from distributor Lionsgate, Stand Up Guys will complete most of its business on house video, where st