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Mixed or average reviews - based on 7 Critics What's this?

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Generally favorable reviews- based on 5 Ratings

  • Summary: Set in the early 1980's, this is the story of a man (Burns) who must save his younger brother (Wood) from Irish and Italian gangsters.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 7
  2. Negative: 2 out of 7
  1. Suspenseful and ultimately unpredictable, with a sterling ensemble cast.
  2. 50
    The impish Wood is a little light as Sean, who's inextricably bound by same family ties that robbed him of a promising future and made him a fugitive from the only life he's even known, but the supporting cast is top-notch.
  3. 50
    Ambitious, guilt-suffused melodrama crippled by poor casting.
  4. We wish other directors would keep Edward Burns busy acting so he wouldn't have time to make his own movies. This is his fourth since "The Brothers McMullen" and they get more tedious each time out.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 5
  2. Negative: 1 out of 5

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