Once Upon a Time in Venice (2017)

Such a frustrating disappointment

Sadly Over-hyped

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Decent acting, cohesive plot, good dialogue. I don't understand the bad reviews. A fun movie with a lot of laughs.

I was really hoping for something good with this film. Sadly, it was the complete opposite. I feel like the film fell flat from the start. It was disjointed and felt more like individual skit than a whole film. I hated the way Middleditch narrated the whole way through the film. It felt pointless. A good film shouldn't have to have someone explain to the audience what's happening.The jokes and comedy felt forced, I felt like I was expected to laugh instead of finding the comedy belly laughing funny, however watching Bruce Willis skateboarding naked and then clenching a gun between his butt cheeks was priceless.Looking at the cast you would automatically expect thi film to be good. Willis, Goodman, Mamoa, all great actors, just not in this particular film. I could hardly understand Mamoa when he spoke and as for Willis and Goodman, they honestly looked like they were just going through the motions of acting their parts, there appeared to be no efforts from them at all. Definitely not the performances you would expect from these actors.Sadly for me this film is not one that I would recommend anyone to watch.

After spending the past few years almost exclusively appearing in direct to DVD movies in small roles that were each knocked off in just a few days of shooting, Bruce Willis here returns to playing a lead role. Though he was sleepwalking in those other movies, Willis here is clearly giving it his all for this movie, having a lengthy nude sequence and later appearing in a dress, among other commitments to the movie. It's nice to see Willis actually trying hard after so long a time of not doing so, though it's kind of a shame that the movie isn't better. Now, don't get me wrong - the movie is not terrible or bad. It isn't boring, and there are some amusing sequences here and there. But it never really rises above being okay. I think the reason for that is that the script is kind of jumbled and underwritten. It takes about half an hour for the movie to set everything up and give Willis' character a goal to accomplish. And even once that happens, the movie really feels more like a collection of vignettes instead of having one solid storyline. The movie passes the time in a painless manner, but all the same I was glad I waited for the movie to appear on Netflix instead of paying to rent the DVD.

Nice story. Action. There is narration to carry the story along. It is a movie that would have played well in theaters. I liked the acting of Bruce Willis and John Goodman: just two regular street-smart guys trying to make it through life by any means necessary. There is a dog, cross-dressers, slutty women, drugs, guns, grenades, fancy cars, graffiti, gangs. It's an action-comedy movie.