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Stand Up Guys

2012

Fisher Stevens

Al Pacino, Christopher Walken, Alan Arkin, Julianna Margulies ...

5.5

5,510

Comedy. Action A pair of aging con men try to get the old gang back together for one last hurrah before one of the guys takes his last assignment -- to kill his comrade.

	Author	Review
United States	Alissa Simon Variety	"Veering between buddy movie and action-thriller, 'Stand Up Guys' is a mildly raunchy, modestly entertaining geriatric comedy"	POS
United States	Kyle Smith New York Post	"Painful, misshapen and a little gross. (...) trite, unfunny, contrived script. Rating: ★ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Betsy Sharkey Los Angeles Times	"Despite some predictable predicaments - and the inevitable Viagra joke - the film is clever in the way it deals with the high cost of mob connections and the even higher cost of old age"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Some actors don't need top-shelf material. Just the pleasure of their company is enough. And so Al Pacino, Christopher Walken and Alan Arkin turn the insubstantial 'Stand Up Guys' into solid entertainment (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"Sometimes it's all about the casting. (...) 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 hurt that it was a crime movie (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Stephen Holden The New York Times	"Most of the modest pleasures are in the ways the men expertly play off one another and invest their shallow characters with more depth than any filmmaker could reasonably expect"	NEU
United States	Elizabeth Weitzman New York Daily News	"The script is undernourished, the supporting characters - including a horribly miscast Lucy Punch - ill-conceived, and Val increasingly hard to take. But when the movie ended, I wanted to watch Walken all over again (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Scott Bowles USA Today	"It's been a long time since a movie wasted as much talent as 'Stand Up Guys', a film that aims to be a geezer 'Goodfellas' but whose execution is a misfire (...) Rating: ★½ (out of four)"	NEG
United States	Joe Morgenstern The Wall Street Journal	"It's long on Viagra jokes and whorehouse scenes, and comes up short on plausibility"	NEG
United States	Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune	"Arkin in particular can barely hide his lack of enthusiasm for the material. Some of the looks he shoots his co-stars appear to contain a secret code of some kind, deciphered as: 'Well, at least I'm in 'Argo'' (...) Rating: ★ (out of four)"	NEG

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