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Just Getting Started

2017

Ron Shelton

Morgan Freeman, Tommy Lee Jones, René Russo, Joe Pantoliano ...

3.5

301

Action. Comedy A two-hander action comedy about an ex-FBI agent (Jones) and an ex-mob lawyer in the witness protection program (Freeman) having to put aside their petty rivalry on the golf course to fend off a mob hit.

	Author	Review
United States	Joe Leydon Variety	"An utterly useless misfire that brings out the worst in all parties involved (...) Unduly protracted, clumsily contrived and dreadfully unamusing"	NEG
United States	Stephen Farber The Hollywood Reporter	"It’s a little too jaunty ever to generate any real sense of jeopardy for our hero (...) Its main value is to make us eager for another, more substantial Shelton movie"	NEU
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"The jokes misfire and the scenes creak and stumble (...) [It] feels slow and interminable"	NEG
United States	Susan Wloszczyna rogerebert.com	"The trouble is, 'Just Getting Started' never really gets going. It only kept me thinking, 'Is this ever just going to finish?' (…) Rating: ★ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Ignatiy Vishnevetsky AV Club	"'Just Getting Started' looks like a cheap sitcom (...) A film that’s been put together at random, possibly with an hour missing"	NEG
United States	Luke Y. Thompson Forbes	"'Just Getting Started' never gets going in any coherent direction (...) Irritating for those of us who paid to watch the results"	NEG
United States	Dan Callahan The Wrap	"There’s very little comedy here and even less action (...) A film that looks like it was a paid vacation for its players."	NEG

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