This film image released by Roadside Attractions shows, from left, Christopher Walken as Doc, Alan Arkin as Hirsch, and Al Pacino as Val in a scene from "Stand Up Guys." (AP Photo/Roadside Attractions, Saeed Adyani)
Film review: ?Stand Up Guys? falls down to clich?s
First Published Jan 31 2013 02:43 pm ? Updated 6 hours agoThe clich?-ridden gangster comedy/drama "Stand Up Guys" serves as proof that nobody tells Al Pacino and Christopher Walken what to do ? and that maybe someone should.
Pacino plays Val, out of prison after 28 years and picked up by his last friend, Doc (Walken), who has orders from a mob boss (Mark Margolis) to kill Val by morning. Soon Val figures this out from Doc?s mournful demeanor, and the two proceed to spring their old cohort Hirsch (Alan Arkin) from the nursing home for a series of adventures into the long night ? including visits to a brothel, the theft of some criminal?s sports car and the rescue of the young woman (Vanessa Ferlito) locked in the trunk.
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?Stand Up Guys?
Opens Friday, Feb. 1, at area theaters; rated R for violence, sexual content, language and brief drug use; 94 minutes.
Director Fisher Stevens thinks he?ll strike comic gold by letting Pacino and Walken riff, but they never really spark off each other. Rookie screenwriter Noah Haidle?s script, laden with false starts and underdeveloped characters, is too rickety a foundation on which to build any laughs or emotions.
? Sean P. Means
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