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Son of a Gun
Directed by
Julius Avery
R
2014
1h 49m
Action
,
Crime
,
and more
6.4
63%
63%
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A teenager is locked up and forced to adapt to harsh prison life. One of Australia's most notorious criminals offers him protection, but at a price.
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Cast of Son of a Gun
Ewan McGregor
Brendan Lynch
Brenton Thwaites
JR White
Alicia Vikander
Tasha
Jacek Koman
Sam
Matt Nable
Sterlo
Tom Budge
Josh
Nash Edgerton
Chris
Damon Herriman
Private Wilson
Eddie Baroo
Merv
Marko Jovanović
Ken
Sam Hutchin
Dave
Lucas Brown
Andy
Jesse McGinn
Swimsuit Girl
Brendan Kerkvliet
Prison Officer
Matt Flannagan
Prison Officer
Geoff Kelso
Prison Officer
Peter Neaves
Prison Officer
Kazimir Sas
JR's Cellmate
Craig Sparrowhawk
Dave's Crony
Jared De' Har
Dave's Crony
Stephanie Power
Gold Room Supervisor
Warwick Sadler
Wounded Staff Member
Mick Innes
Old Yacht Man
Sarah Filippi
Airport Clerk
John Boxer
Wayne
Russell Kiefel
Mick
Nick Britton
Guy in Club
Richard Suliman
Motel Clerk
Isaac Money
Beach Teen (uncredited)
David Thomson
Guy in Club
Julius Avery
Director / Writer
Timothy White
Producer
Son of a Gun Ratings & Reviews
Observer
Rex Reed
A not-so-thrilling heist thriller that drones along mechanically between explosions and car crashes with Ewan McGregor, who is making entirely too many movies these days, none of them worth writing home about.
Nerdist
Kyle Anderson
While not breaking any new ground narratively, Son of a Gun is a solid prison-heist-escape movie with a truly terrific turn from Ewan McGregor.
Cinemalogue
Todd Jorgenson
The formulaic tendencies outmuscle the scrappy ambition in this uneven crime thriller.
RogerEbert.com
Scout Tafoya
It's a little heavy on incident, and a little light on soul.
Movie Mezzanine
Jake Mulligan
Another crime film that's learned all it knows about criminal life from better crime films.
Los Angeles Times
Gary Goldstein
"Son of a Gun" is a derivative crime thriller that sputters when it should propel, skims when it should probe.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
"Son of a Gun" adds to the mystique that Australian crime films are meaner, nastier and more brutish than their American counterparts. But it changes style roughly every half-hour.
Film Journal International
Don Groves
A talented cast is squandered in this derivative, far-fetched Australian crime action- thriller which misfired on home soil.
The Dissolve
Kate Erbland
Son Of A Gun, twists together a surprisingly original heist story with a more commonplace meditation on the ugliness (and the sometimes inevitability) of revenge.
AV Club
Mike D'Angelo
A thoroughly generic action flick in which a gang of thieves without much honor attempt to pull off one last big heist.
Metro
Matt Prigge
There's a pretty good prison saga here, one which gets rudely interrupted by an unimaginative prison break followed by a flaccid romance.
L.A. Weekly
Amy Nicholson
The film's trajectory is as predictable as a bullet's: There's crosses and double-crosses, clumsily inserted strip club scenes, and instant professions of eternal love
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
First-time director Julius Avery plays the action by the book. None of the plot twists - from the central heist to a distracting romance - is particularly persuasive.
New York Post
Sara Stewart
Begins with an enticingly dark first act in jail, but descends steadily downward into a mass of clichés.
The Hollywood Reporter
Stephen Dalton
While Avery handles the kinetic action set-piece with impressive swagger for a first-timer, his self-penned screenplay is a major weak point.
JoBlo's Movie Network
Chris Bumbray
A strong change-of-pace for McGregor and well-worth checking out for action fans.
Examiner.com
Travis Hopson
It looks the part of a great heist movie but doesn't compare to those that that truly are.
Slant Magazine
Christopher Gray
The film has the requisite iconography of a crime thriller, but no investment in any of it.
Entertainment Weekly
Chris Nashawaty
Aussie writer-director Julius Avery's over-plotted feature debut is a gritty crime flick that crackles with menace and explores the age-old question of whether there's honor among thieves.
Variety
Guy Lodge
At best, the pic serves as a showy grab-bag of thriller varieties for which the helmer demonstrates equal aptitude; at worst, it points to a narrative attention span that hasn't yet evolved from his award-winning short film work.
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