Saved from the land of the Razzie Awards by a cast that keeps working hard against seemingly insurmountable odds.

| Original Score: 1.5/4.0 | Sep 24, 2020

The only thing left to do is throw your hands up, shrug your shoulders, and just walk away.

| Original Score: D | Jul 11, 2020

...yet another ineffective endeavor from a curiously incompetent filmmaker...

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 15, 2013

"The Son of No One" is terrible, which is really a shame, because it's clearly so heartfelt and sincere.

| Original Score: D+ | Jun 23, 2013

A film disaster with more loose ends than granny's wig.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 16, 2012

Montiel constantly over-directs and over-edits, underlining certain points that have already been made clear. It's gritty and moody, but with little dramatic effect.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 7, 2012

The Son of No One makes me feel like a teacher whose student has very obviously plagiarized their final paper of the semester.

| Original Score: 0.5/5 | Nov 11, 2011

a high pitched melodrama

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 10, 2011

Muddled cop thriller The Son of No One has a top-drawer cast and a bottom-drawer script.

| Original Score: C- | Nov 4, 2011

A complex, unpredictable and exhilarating crime thriller that's just as suspenseful and captivating as The Departed.

| Original Score: 8.5/10 | Nov 4, 2011

It's messy when it needs to be engaging; choppy when it needs to draw us in.

| Original Score: 2.0/5.0 | Nov 4, 2011

Feature as a whole feels fogged, attempting to communicate a persistence of shame in the most scattered, accommodating manner imaginable. In other words, it's a typical Dito Montiel motion picture.

| Original Score: D+ | Nov 4, 2011

A dreary, pointless, stylistically blowsy film...rendered all but unintelligible by Montiel's messy technique and chaotic narrative choices.

| Original Score: D- | Nov 4, 2011

Montiel does a skilful job intertwining the past and present action but the plot always feels thin and the characters underdeveloped.

| Nov 4, 2011

Life is a struggle, the new film "The Son of No One" makes that explicitly clear. But so is moviemaking, and unfortunately the toil is all too evident in writer-director Dito Montiel's messy, logic-strained third feature.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Nov 4, 2011

A laughable police melodrama.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Nov 4, 2011

The flashbacks to [Channing] Tatum's late '80s childhood are embarrassingly overwrought -- including some of the worst acting of [Al] Pacino's career.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Nov 3, 2011

"The Son of No One" self-destructs in a ludicrous, ineptly directed anticlimactic rooftop showdown in which bodies pile up, and nothing makes a shred of sense.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Nov 3, 2011

Something is lacking in the dramatic equation.

Full Review | Nov 3, 2011

This heavy-handed muddle of a cop thriller is just impossibly bad.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 3, 2011