ReaderKenka Let's be realistic.

Platicsco Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Limerculer A waste of 90 minutes of my life

Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Gordon-11 This film is about a young policeman whose dark secret is threatening to destroy his career and reputation.As a thriller, "The Son of No One" does not work at all. There is little thrill and little engagement. The plot is weak , as 1) we see no motive for people to expose what happened in 1986; 2) why would a newspaper print a letter with a serious accusation but without evidence to support it; 3) why would the letter writer continue to write when no one is interested in the topic. Maybe the director wants to add depth into the film by showing introspection and guilt, but it slows the film down so much that it becomes boring. The film conveys no urgency and no thrill at all. I am disappointed by "The Son of No One", given the strong cast it has.

MLDinTN I thought this movie was OK. I'm surprised by all the negative reviews. My main complaint would be that it moved along a little to slow, but the story made sense and it was interesting. Also, I didn't think Jonathan would have done what he did at the end because he's jeopardizing his family.But the story about Jonathan's guilt and how he lived with it and eventually became a cop was pretty good. Plus you had the surprise of why he ended up at the prescient that was 2 hours from his home. Channing Tatum was decent in this, better acting than a lot of his movies.FINAL VERDICT: OK, if you want a drama.

Doha Film "The Son of No One", the new film by director Dito Montiel, who began a very promising career with "A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints" in 2006, boasts, on paper at least, a talented cast. Veterans such as Al Pacino, Ray Liotta and Juliette Binoche share screen time with younger actors like Channing Tatum and Katie Holmes. What emerges, however, is a series of occasionally memorable scenes ruined by a flat and sometimes incomprehensible storyline The film opens in 1986 when a young Jonathan White, played as an adult by Channing Tatum, shoots and kills two drug dealers in an apartment building in New York. As we see it, he fears for his life. His best friend Vinny, played by Tracy Morgan, witnesses the whole scene.White, however, has a guardian angel – Detective Charles Stanford. He is White's godfather and was once partner to the young man's father. Stanford covers up the killings, justice is never meted out. The film reopens in 2002 with White now a police officer in the same area. As he starts work, an anonymous source starts sending letters to a local newspaper, edited by Juliette Binoche. The front page letters claim to know the identity of the police officer who covered up the 1986 killings.If all this feels a little rushed, please bear in mind that I have only described the first twenty minutes of "The Son of No One". What follows is that White is tormented by his crimes – he suspects his old friend Vinny is writing the letters. His superior officer, Captain Marion Mathers (Ray Liotta), is reluctant to revisit an old case. White's wife, played by Katie Holmes, senses her husband is dealing with personal demons.Throughout "The Son of No One", I couldn't help but think that several promising angles were allowed to vanish without pursuit. Why, for instance, would a senior police officer risk his own reputation in covering up the murders – when there was a perfectly justifiable juvenile defense by White? Equally, the film hints at a police force under pressure after the events of September 11, 2001. But again, that is never explored. More baffling is the local community newspaper edited by Binoche. No explanation is offered for the anonymous notes – and why she would publish them without checking their veracity.If all this sounds risible – it isn't. The cast and crew acquit themselves well. Ageing lions Liotta and Pacino are on fine form. Katie Holmes is given some moving dialogue. Even Tracy Morgan is able to dampen his manic energy and delivers a muted performance. In the end, though, there simply isn't enough to hold our attention. Good acting is one thing – flawless storytelling is a greater challenge.

Justrbloke ...oh, and it's boring as all hell, morbidly depressing and utterly pointless in the end.The characters are all brain dead; the storyline is horribly stilted and completely under-developed and get's lost up its own ass several times over. The line delivery/audio is borderline inaudible in several scenes (mercifully but irritatingly). The storyline pleads for sympathy votes from every tragic theme and catastrophe it can find, becoming its own catastrophe along the way. There is not a single redeeming feature to this movie.The primo actors in this film were surely paid enough to be able to afford a refund of my hire fee for this (by association) falsely represented piece of crap! Where do I write to them to get my money back?!