Viewed in
2013.
Formats
Movie theater.
Premise
Robert DeNiro and Michelle Pfeiffer are mafia-turned-snitch parents whose witness protection program takes them and their kids to a small town in France.
Liked
Tony Shalhoub.
Disliked
Pretty much everything else.
Thoughts
My one word review: *yawn*.
The only good part was seeing Tony Shalhoub as an evil hitman, mugging every scene with a menacing grin.
I think what made it a yawnfest was that it tried too hard to be too many things. There was mobster suspense in the form of Shalhoub hunting them down, family-driven drama in the form of kids trying to fit in, coming-of-age in the form of the daughter falling in love for the first time, dark comedy in the form of Pfeiffer's anger management, and action flick in the form of obligatory shootout finale. All these shallow themes and nowhere subplots just failed on all ends.
Unless you really really love Shalhoub, stay away from this bore of a movie. Shockingly, The Family came from Luc Besson, who at the very least, usually creates compelling characters.
