NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Michelle Ridley The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Otuo Isaac oneil The idea of bringing great stars together was not bad.Because it was the individual performance that kept the movie alive.I have not watch a complicated movie in the last decade that this title.It was difficult to truly understand the content and plot.Casting was also not great,character combination was awful.

weetiger3 I'm a fan of John Hillcoat (especially the criminally underrated "Lawless") so I had to check this one out. It's a great premise, and reminded me in some ways of Tarantino and "Reservoir Dogs" with a gritty and ultra-violent realism. If you are a fan of action/crime then you'll enjoy this

dominickdesid We the people have collectively manholes covers sitting on/over their heads; they (the mob) have willfully lost the capacity for creative thinking in the arts and other sciences, and so judgments' in regards to quality of so-called bottom feeding consumer entertainments are paralleling, that non-thinking, as a priority. For the born again yahoo flat landers who've been so oppressed in the counter culture of backwardness, which they also presume to love and take pleasure in, have shrunken to such smallness as to accept and delight in any mere excessive fusion of violence through canned manipulations of sight and sound. Rather than carry a seamless conception of true creative beauty through tapping into some instances, which replicate possible potential of the mind, even in such a low/lesser medium, as the currently almost total absurdity of so-called films, which by degree could be all elevated should a greater people come forward and thus demand that in the culture of their society. These so-called films are a very expensive overhead and total drain (mental, moral, and financial) on entire real physical economy, and such corrupting non-industry demands that its minions remain absolute controlled doltish fools who crave, and feed, it's less than uselessness perpetually. Rather than support those monsters feed your mind/soul, and certainly never wait upon such ignorance, or worse, by paying for it!

imdb2-5 The opening scene is promising. It's a group of criminals that you find out are police officers are plotting to commit a difficult armed robbery. They decide that in spite of the odds they will go through with the plan. And what you eventually find out is that this film is just all about a group of characters who must obtain a McGuffin, no more no less.We then meet the woman who is calling the shots. The gritty film becomes laughable from there. Kate Winslet, looking nasty and wearing a gold Star of David pendant at least as large as a hockey puck is introduced, right after her two non-speaking thugs with cool haircuts and huge skull cap yarmulkas escort our black protagonist into the house. His half black son is being raised Jewish and also has a huge skull cap yarmulka on his head. Apparently all of this Russian mob also is connected with Israel. What did this have to do with the movie at all? At that point I could only wonder whether the film received financing from a middle east arab country or someone with a HUGE ax to grind with religious Jewish people and Israel. And that theme continues throughout the movie and right up front.There is nothing new as you move along. It's the same heavy handed message that there is no honor among thieves and criminals. I won't give away the ending. It's no big reveal you'll guess part of the explosive climax which doesn't make much sense if the characters are consistent with how they are presented. This is such a colossal waste of talent. A cast whose names are on some of the most well known and revered films of the past decade and the end result will only be memorable for how far out of the way the director goes to remind everyone that the most horrible criminal animals in this film are these reviled religious Jewish Israeli mobsters. Forgettable rubbish.