Locked up for a minor crime, 19 year old JR quickly learns the harsh realities of prison life. Protection, if you can get it, is paramount. JR soon finds himself under the watchful eye of Australia's most notorious criminal, Brendan Lynch, but protection comes at a price.
A thoroughly generic action flick in which a gang of thieves without much honor attempt to pull off one last big heist.
– Mike D'Angelo,
AV Club,
22 Jan 2015
rotten:
"Son of a Gun" adds to the mystique that Australian crime films are meaner, nastier and more brutish than their American counterparts. But it changes style roughly every half-hour.
– Stephen Holden,
New York Times,
22 Jan 2015
rotten:
"Son of a Gun" is a derivative crime thriller that sputters when it should propel, skims when it should probe.
– Gary Goldstein,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Jan 2015
fresh:
It's all put together with a crisp confidence that suggests its writer-director will swiftly move on to bigger things.
– Trevor Johnston,
Time Out,
26 Jan 2015
rotten:
A not-so-thrilling heist thriller that drones along mechanically between explosions and car crashes with Ewan McGregor, who is making entirely too many movies these days, none of them worth writing home about.