Quartile rating: 6/10 · 1 rating
Four sons of well-known New York mobsters must retrieve a bag of cash from a small Montana town ruled by a corrupt sheriff.
Knockaround Guys is a fairly formulaic crime thriller that blends fish-out-of-water mob kids with a small-town corruption plot. The setup has some promise but the execution is uneven and the narrative doesn't go anywhere particularly surprising. The cast — including Barry Pepper, Vin Diesel, Seth Green, and John Malkovich — elevates the material somewhat, with Diesel's bar-fight scene standing out as memorable. Visually it's competent but unremarkable. The premise echoes better mob films and small-town crime dramas without adding much new to the genre. The ending resolves things in a predictable, slightly unsatisfying manner typical of mid-tier crime films of the era.