Rotten
Muddled cop thriller The Son of No One has a top-drawer cast and a bottom-drawer script.
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor
The Son of No One
Serve. Protect. Lie.
2011 · 1h 30m · R
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Directed by
Dito Montiel
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Dito Montiel Director
- Channing Tatum as Jonathan White
- Al Pacino as Detective Stanford
- Juliette Binoche as Lauren Bridges
- Katie Holmes as Kerry White
- James Ransone as Officer Thomas Prudenti
- Ray Liotta as Captain Marion Mathers
- Tracy Morgan as Vincent Carter (Adult)
- Ursula Parker as Charolette 'Charlie' White
- Brian Gilbert Cast
- Jake Cherry Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
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
Rotten
It just feels like a mess.
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger
Rotten
A laughable police melodrama.
Lou Lumenick, New York Post
Rotten
"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
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