The Son of No One provides superficial enjoyment, which can only be had if paired with an appreciation for the singular muck Montiel uses to hold it together.

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.. the real surprise is Tracy Morgan, in a small but transformative role as the heavily medicated adult incarnation of Jonathan's childhood friend. His portrayal of schizoaffective disorder is balm in a film suffering a similar illness.

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“Son of No One” is possibly the most forgettable movie to feature A-listers in years.

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"Son of No One," written and directed by Dino Montiel, seems to be adding up, but its drama and urgency are without purpose.

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"The Son of No One" has a great cast and terrific scenes -- so why doesn't it all add up?

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Cop movie bounces nicely between two New York eras but is built around an unconvincing premise.

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Even if there were a compelling narrative here to begin with, Montiel’s excessive technique would throw you right out of it.

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The Son of No One, a gritty New York cop drama has some of the atmospheric squalor of a Richard Price novel.

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Montiel is a gifted filmmaker, and even when The Son Of No One languishes (which it does much of the time), his feeling for New York City street life remains as vibrant and authentic as his first two efforts;

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TATUM & MONTIEL PROVE THE THIRD TIME IS NOT THE CHARM.

The momentum of the story, which is both clever and complex, does not build until the third act.

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It’s all very messy and entirely too obvious at the same time. Montiel makes the most of his settings, but the story keeps staggering into dead ends.

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This heavy-handed muddle of a cop thriller is just impossibly bad.

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In this case, Montiel's awkward appropriation of gritty crime-drama conventions results in a film that's contrived and implausible, at times absurdly so.

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The Son of No One self-destructs in a ludicrous, ineptly directed anticlimactic rooftop showdown in which bodies pile up, and nothing makes a shred of sense.

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By the time The Son of No One reaches its wanna-be-tragic finale, you’d like nothing more than to kick this bastard child to the curb.

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