Review of The Son of No One (2011) by Philip P — 22 Feb 2012

"The Son of No One" is a waste of time for you and for all of those involved. When a movie is headed up by Channing Tatum one can always expect that it might carry a slight wooden factor but here tatum is backed up by a supporting cast that includes Al Pacino, Ray Liotta, Katie Holmes, Tracy Morgan, and Juliette Binoche.

Now each of those actors has clearly not always made the best choices in film and Binoche must have some kind of friendship with director Dito Montiel because if they read the script for the movie I watched this just doesn't make sense.

The trailer looked at least intriguing if not a litle generic, but the story doesn't even seem coherent when each scene is strung together as a whole. In little moments we see hints of what could have been and this film actually contains one of Tatum's better performances but neither he nor any of his supporting players can elevate the lackluster material.

I haven't seen any of Montiel's previous work but have heard his name and this film doesn't warrant the discussion or even why such a strong cast of talent would be so eager to work with him.

Holmes literally does nothing here and Pacino and Liotta are so type cast it's not even funny. Morgan gives a nice turn as a tortured child who grew up to be mentally disfigured so to speak but in the end it comes down to the story and not only how bad the pacing and clarity of the storytelling was but how it moved us very little and that we didn't care about these characters going through what seemed like an extremely dramatic situation.

There is a good cop drama hiding in here somewhere.