A rookie cop is assigned to the 118 Precinct in the same district where he grew up. The Precinct Captain starts receiving letters about two unsolved murders that happened many years ago in the housing projects when the rookie cop was just a kid. These letters bring back bad memories and old secrets that begin to threaten his career and break up his family.
"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.
– Stephen Holden,
New York Times,
3 Nov 2011
rotten:
A laughable police melodrama.
– Lou Lumenick,
New York Post,
4 Nov 2011
rotten:
It just feels like a mess.
– Stephen Whitty,
Newark Star-Ledger,
4 Nov 2011
rotten:
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.
– Robert Abele,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Nov 2011
rotten:
Muddled cop thriller The Son of No One has a top-drawer cast and a bottom-drawer script.