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The movie was realistic enough. I like how Sonny's family was involved-- his mom, ex-wife, new love, and passing father. But the script needed Sonny to be passionate and not passive. It needed someone with grit. Especially the part where Sonny is on the clock. It should have been climatic but when Sonny says I love this game, he wasn't even facing the camera. The script was too scrappy for me.

If you watch the first 30 or 40 minutes and then tune again 45 minutes before it's over, it's a perfect movie.

Of course her shirt was strategically torn so the top part of her breasts were exposed in front of 2 children, but that's the movie industry. An hour into it and you're traumatized from the prolonged trauma the characters suffered. The movie is predictable and worn. It's insufferable.

The movie is so slow I took breaks cleaning my yard. Sophomoric reasons got and kept the dad in the fight. This is a 2013 movie with a 1980's storyline and the whiney complaining mom was sour.

It's hard to rate this movie because it has all the components of a sustaining good watch: the acting is raw; the script is believable; the trauma is understandable; the loss palpable. But the sum of it's parts is oppressive and painful. The emotional toll is great in getting to the end. It will resonate and console those presently experiencing a devastating loss. So overall it's hope for the hopeless but too despairing for me.

The harsh hard heartedness of the dad was off putting along with his hypocritical religious piety. This movie is an old, outdated storyline. I couldn't imagine having a gunslinger for a son and talking down to him. The arrogance of the Father blinded him to understanding the respect from the son was from humility and not a debt and not deserved. The movie was somber.

It's just too much...the machismo

The best acting. Great story. Very believable. And then the most rediculous, zany 🤪 happenings. It should have ended over and over. It turned into a low rated horror movie. I was simply relieved it was over.

There's a lot of dramatic music that's louder than the actors. The scenes are well lit. The great actors are denigrated with their heavy, phony drawls. The plot is shallow.

Al Pacino always great. Mathew is always confident. Movie too sensational. Passion without substance. The script just had no depth but delivered by real talent.