Stuff happens in Venice, but it never feels like it's building toward anything, either as a payoff for the setpieces it subjects us to or as a subversion of expected payoff.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 24, 2020

... the chaos and mish-mash of ideas takes over and not much is done to reign it in and make it into a movie that doesn't feel like a bit of a mess.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 17, 2020

Once Upon a Time in Venice sports a truly incredible cast, who are then placed as cartoon characters in a shallow pastiche of crime stories. Enter a world where every person is defined by stereotype, yet still gets introduced by a narrator.

| Jan 9, 2020

Once Upon a Time in Venice isn't a classic, but it's certainly not a waste of time either.

| Original Score: 6.5/10 | Oct 10, 2019

Based on the fun work being done by most of the cast, this could have been an entertaining little genre exercise with the right leading man. Instead, it's a sad reminder that Looper may be the last good movie Bruce Willis will ever make.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 17, 2019

Not funny enough or crazy enough, when it could be a "gangsters stole my dog" B-movie caper; Bruce Willis is amiable, John Goodman underused. Buddy the dog doesn't make an appearance for ages -- he deserved better (and I'm a cat person).

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Nov 9, 2018

Despite having an all-star talented cast, Once Upon A Time In Venice doesn't live up to the action comedies that preceded it despite a talented cast.

| Nov 26, 2017

The script is awful and the goofy stunts are not as entertaining as you expect them to be.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 20, 2017

Once Upon A Time In Venice is clearly a film made by cinephiles, but the scattered subplots and underdeveloped characters combine for an overall misfire.

| Aug 31, 2017

Imagine Hudson Hawk barrelling along Abbot Kinney Boulevard, collecting John Wick as he enters from Brooks Avenue, before both are rammed by the Inherent Vice bus on Main.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 17, 2017

An ultra-lite version of Paul Thomas Anderson's "Inherent Vice," "Once Upon a Time in Venice" is a sunny SoCal noir so inconsequential it seems to evaporate as it plays out.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 14, 2017

Adding yet another meaningless B-movie role to his long list of misses, veteran action star, Bruce Willis, returns to the big screen.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 9, 2017

Once Upon a Time in Venice is a sterling example of how a lazy star can make a bad movie even worse.

| Jul 1, 2017

Fueled by testosterone, it's a wannabe action-comedy caper that turns out to be neither.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Jun 27, 2017

You leave with a lot of questions, first and foremost being: Bruce Willis woke up for this?

| Jun 22, 2017

I still can't stop smiling and thinking about the unusual and entertaining performances of Bruce Willis, John Goodman and Jason Momoa in 'Once Upon a Time in Venice.'

| Jun 20, 2017

It's good to have Bruce Willis back in a lead role as a wiseacre private eye, though this shambling shaggy-dog story about a kidnapped pooch is like a stoned student film with major stars, or a cross between Inherent Vice and The Big Lebowski.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 19, 2017

Another in a long line of Tarantino-inspired, multi-character comic crime capers, this movie stays on its toes during a whirlwind of sly humor, cool-headed characters, and colorful situations.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 19, 2017

Comedy is subjective, so while I'm about to trash this lazy and obnoxiously unfunny movie you may actually enjoy it. Especially if you have an terrible sense of humor.

| Jun 16, 2017

That hissing sound you hear is the air being let out of Bruce Willis as he struggles mightily to reconnect with once-vital action-comedy chops in the dim, unfunny Once Upon a Time in Venice.

| Jun 16, 2017