The Family Reviews



  • The Family
    • Genre : Action, Comedy
    • Release Date :
    • MPAA Rating : R
    • Duration : 111 minute(s)
    • Production Budget : -
    • Studio : Relativity Media
    • Official Site : http://www.facebook.com/TheFamilyMovie
    • Reviews Rate
      Not quite bad, but it's not recommended either.

    • Readers Rate
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Movie Reviews

  • unfortunately not as much fun for the audience
    by Stephen Farber [Hollywood Reporter ]
  • tries to exploit novelistic devices that don't translate well to film
    2 of 4 by Adam Mazmanian [The Washington Times ]
  • this unexciting, unfunny would-be action satire is filled with Italian-American stereotypes, decades-old TV-style Mafia cliches
    1 of 5 by Joe Neumaier [NY Daily News ]
  • the movie has holes galore. It has abrupt tonal shifts, an incoherent back story and abandoned subplots. It doesn't even try for basic credibility
    by Stephen Holden [NY Times ]
  • the actors, especially Pfeiffer, give the script more than it deserves. But Besson's leaden touch works against light and airy. The Family is a comic souffle that never rises
    2 of 4 by Peter Travers [Rolling Stone ]
  • most of all, it's a missed opportunity
    2 of 4 by Claudia Puig [USA Today ]
  • instead of the print of "Some Came Running" with Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra, they are mis-shipped a copy of, well, something else
    by Mark Olsen [LA Times ]
  • Besson knows his way around an action film, he's not as adept at comedy. The result is an often-violent, occasionally amusing fish-out-of-eau tale that plunks a family of wise guys in the French countryside with predictable results
    2 of 4 by Linda Barnard [Toronto Star ]

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