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Release Date: Oct 11, 2002; Rated: R; Video Release Date: Feb 25, 2003; Genres: Crime, Drama; With: Andrew Davoli, Vin Diesel, Seth Green and Barry Pepper; Distributor: New Line Cinema
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Four junior wiseguys trying to prove themselves set out for cowpoke country to retrieve a big bag of misplaced money. Can't you just picture the sleeping-with-the-fishes-out-of-water yuks? Surprise: ''Knockaround Guys'' plays the premise straight, toying with familiar Mob themes of honor and betrayal while coming to a very slow boil. What keeps it (barely) watchable are Pepper's moody intensity as the conflicted son of the big boss (Dennis Hopper), Diesel's brawny cool as a low-level enforcer, and John Malkovich's glazed hamminess as an old-school Brooklyn mobster. Whenever he's on screen, the movie is sorta funny.
Posted Feb 28, 2003
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