Stand Up Guys

"Veering between buddy movie and action-thriller, 'Stand Up Guys' is a mildly raunchy, modestly entertaining geriatric comedy" 

"Painful, misshapen and a little gross. (...) trite, unfunny, contrived script. Rating: ★ (out of 4)" 

"Despite some predictable predicaments - and the inevitable Viagra joke - the film is clever in the way it deals with the high cost of mob connections and the even higher cost of old age" 

"Some actors don't need top-shelf material. Just the pleasure of their company is enough. And so Al Pacino, Christopher Walken and Alan Arkin turn the insubstantial 'Stand Up Guys' into solid entertainment (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)" 

"Sometimes it's all about the casting. (...) I read the names Al Pacino, Christopher Walken and Alan Arkin, and it didn't matter in a way what the movie was about - although it didn't hurt that it was a crime movie (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)" 

"Most of the modest pleasures are in the ways the men expertly play off one another and invest their shallow characters with more depth than any filmmaker could reasonably expect" 

"The script is undernourished, the supporting characters - including a horribly miscast Lucy Punch - ill-conceived, and Val increasingly hard to take. But when the movie ended, I wanted to watch Walken all over again (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"