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Once Upon a Time in Venice

2017

Marc Cullen, Robb Cullen

Bruce Willis, Jason Momoa, Famke Janssen, John Goodman ...

4.1

1,215

Action. Thriller. Comedy Steve Ford (Bruce Willis) is a down but not out L.A based Private Investigator whose professional and personal worlds collide after his loving pet Buddy is stolen by a notorious gang. A series of crazy circumstances find him doing the gang's bidding, while being chased by two vengeful Samoan brothers, a loan shark's goons, and a few other shady characters. They say a dog is a man's best friend, and Steve shows how far a man will go to be reunited with him. [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Kate Erbland IndieWire	"[It] wastes its lead and everything else around him (...) Slipshod from the start (...) The film limps towards its mostly unearned conclusion (...) Bruce, you’re better than this."
		Gary Thompson Philadelphia Inquirer	"[Willis] skateboarding naked for the sake of slapstick laughs (…) A shaggy dog story (...) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"
		Guy Lodge Variety	"The structural model here lies somewhere between the Coens’ 'The Big Lebowski' (...) and Robert Altman’s 'The Long Goodbye' — but the film has neither the wit nor the atmosphere to pull off even its broader, bro-ier take on such territory."
		Neil Genzlinger The New York Times	"A bunch of well-known faces look lost in 'Once Upon a Time in Venice', which is billed as an action-comedy but has little comedy and less action."
		Frank Scheck The Hollywood Reporter	"Bruce Willis continues the 'I don’t give a damn, write me a check' phase of his career with 'Once Upon a Time in Venice', a lame action-comedy"
		Ignatiy Vishnevetsky AV Club	"Stylistically, 'Once Upon A Time In Venice' is mostly indistinguishable from a middling TV pilot that never made it to series (...) It ends on a completely arbitrary note"
		Michael Rechtshaffen Los Angeles Times	"A wincingly unfunny comedy (...) The smug movie is piled high with tired stereotypes (...) and half-baked action (...) Clearly large chunks of the dialogue have been improvised here"
		Adam Graham Detroit News	"'Venice' never takes itself very seriously, but it had enough going for it to attract a talented cast (...) It’s the kind of curiosity that doesn’t get made much anymore, but when it does, its weirdness is worth noting."

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