Review of The Son of No One (2011) by Calum B — 22 Oct 2011

The Son Of No One is a movie that I was very excited to experience. Maybe because this is one of Channing Tatum's serious movies, or maybe legendary actor Al Pacino plays a part in this film. Now I know many have criticized Channing Tatum as an untalented actor, but in some of his films I saw a lot of potential in him.

Channing Tatum plays Jonathan, who is a new cop, with a young family. Al Pacino plays Detective Stanford who was once Jonathan's father's co worker or more of a friend. As the story goes we find out that Jonathan killed two junkies in an accident when he was young, Detective Stanford being a friend of his father's was at the crime scene helped Jonathan to cover up the incident.

Now Jonathan has to face his past again as the information of an old case being set up suddenly gets released by local papers. Which turns out to be Jonathan's own haunting incident. Jonathan starts to investigate this case, at the same time searching for the source, so he can save his job and his life.

The movie is decent. But it could have been a lot better, I think many will agree with me on that one. The performances are good, but the characters could have been explored more. Channing Tatum still needs more time to perfect his roles, as for Pacino he was one of the elements that carried the film.

The ending twist was disappointing as you can easily predict it before it happens. This movie had a lot of potential, it really could have been much better.