![]() ![]() ![]() Why would an underboss risk a job so big that it could cost his own life and bring down the family in the process on a bunch of entry-level guys? Why send a pilot with a known drug history out to do the work? From there, the plot has more holes than "The Godfather"'s Sonny Corleone at the tollbooth. However, what "Knockaround Guys" is sorely lacking is believability. The plot starts with a good idea, organized crime family's sons want to make good, please their pops and make a name for themselves as people who can get the job done. Matty and another crime family son (Andrew Davoli) set out from New York to recoup the money, bringing with them the young muscle of Taylor (Vin Diesel, "XXX") to deal with the townsfolk and the local sheriff. On a gas stop in Montana, a drug-addled Marbles loses his cool and, with it, the bag with the money. Matty enlists the pilot skills of a friend, Johnny Marbles (Seth Green, the "Austin Powers" series), to pick up the loot in Washington and fly it safely back to Brooklyn. He wants to earn his father's trust and get a piece of the business. Haunted by his character's inability to live as a cold-hearted mobster, yet with the desperate need for approval by his father (Dennis Hopper), Matty approaches him with a plan that will allow Matty to lead a cross-country operation to bring back a half-million dollars from a crime deal. He's trying to live the straight life, yet he keeps getting brushed off from employers who don't want to be tied to the stigma they think he would bring. The movie has some interesting ideas, but it's weakly developed.īarry Pepper ("Saving Private Ryan," "61*") is Matty Demaret, the son of an underboss in an organized crime ring in Brooklyn. And, though it tries to live up to the genre's benchmarks, it doesn't even come close.Ĭentered on a young cast, "Knockaround Guys," looks and acts like it has an overwhelming amount of inexperience, and the script doesn't help matters. "Knockaround Guys" is the newest in a line of mafia-tied movies out to give you some bada-bing for your movie buck (and, certainly, to cash in on the success of "The Sopranos"). ![]()
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