The Son Of No One (2011) 6/10

Starring : Channing Tatum, Tracy Morgan, Katie Holmes, Ray Liotta, James Ransone, Jake Cherry, Juliette Binoche, Al Pacino
Director : Dito Montiel
Running Time : 90 mins

Thirty year old rookie cop Jonathan ‘Milk’ White (Tatum) is assigned to the district where he spent much of his childhood. When he discovers that some letters have been sent into the local newspaper regarding a double homicide that occurred when he was a child, White starts to worry that the new captain, Marion Mathers (Liotta), might start looking into the details of the deaths as he had been involved.

This tense thriller tries not to keep too many secrets from the viewer which in some ways can spoil a good cop drama, even the identity of the person sending messages to the newspapers is revealed less than half way through the movie. I guess the purpose of the movie is to show the cover up rather than tease us with who is revealing details of the murders, but the slow pacing of the movie really drag things along at a snail’s pace that for some might cause them to give up, seeing as they already know the killer and who is sending the letters before the movie ends, although that turns out to be a bluff.

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