Movie Reviews: The Family


With The Family, critics are once again asking why an actor with the stature and accomplishments of Robert De Niro would appear in movies with such lousy scripts.





Kyle Smith asks in the New York Post:

"Remember the days when Robert De Niro was an interesting actor? These days his talent, like his character in The Family, is in the witness protection program, never to be seen again."





Joe Neumaier writes in the New York Daily News:

"The Family is no Goodfellas -- or any other good mobster flick -- as egg noodles and ketchup are to spaghetti and marinara sauce."





Mark Olsen in the Los Angeles Times has mixed feelings about the movie, writing that director Luc Besson:

"Serves up red meat action with the sweet feel of a confectionary, making his fun, forgettable The Family both better than might be expected and still not much of anything at all."

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I saw this yesterday and i liked it. The ending is very good. JamesG, who's the hot girl that played Robert and Michelle's daughter? I've never seen her before.

I'll answer for James (and I looked her up on IMDB): Dianna Agron.

Thanks. She's cute. Her and her brother in The Family were very bad hahahahahahahahahaha. They were shooting guns LOL.

Dianna Agron used to be a regular on "Glee".

I also saw her in the film I Am Number Four from a few years ago.

What's Iam Number 4 about? I never watched Glee. I'm about to look at her now on Youtube.

It was based off of a teen science fiction book series about an alien with "special powers" living on Earth while struggling w/ human emotions and his true purpose.

It was intended to be a franchise, but it underperformed and future films were scrapped.