Storyline
Steve Ford is a private detective in Venice Beach, Calif., who's good with the ladies, bad with the punches and wild about his dog Buddy. When local thugs steal Buddy, Ford turns to Spyder, their devious leader, and forges an unlikely alliance. With help from his best friend, Steve pulls out the big guns to retrieve Spyder's stolen cash and cocaine and save Buddy.
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Kal Penn, Adam Goldberg, Bruce Willis, Wood Harris, Wood Harris, Kevin Breznahan, Keith Jardine, Elisabeth Röhm, John Goodman, Jason Momoa, Thomas Middleditch, Ken Davitian, Adrian Martinez, Sammi Rotibi, Famke Janssen, Ralph Garman, Billy Gardell, Adrienne McQueen, Maurice Compte, Maurice Compte, Myles Humphus, Candice Coke, Bo Roberts, Victor Ortiz, Christina Veronica, Colin Kane, Tyga, Stephanie Sigman, Frederick Keeve, Ana Flavia Gavlak, Jenna Curtis, Randy Gonzalez, Emily Robinson, Sol Rodríguez, India Wadsworth, Jessica Gomes, Lane Smith Jr., Pamela Shaddock
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Reviews
75
At times it’s funny as hell. At other times it’s pretty much a disaster. But it never commits the crime of being tedious.
50
The best thing that can be said about Once Upon a Time in Venice, a very light action comedy from Mark and Robb Cullen, is that it allows Willis to cut loose and have fun.
38
The messy tangle of the plot, which involves Steve-Bruce getting knocked out, more than once, does little more than throw a whole lot of potentially silly stuff against the screen — some of it landing laughs.
33
Mark Cullen’s ruthlessly boring and decidedly dismal Once Upon a Time in Venice marks a new low in Willis’ still-trucking action career, one that even Cage would likely flinch at, even if it does feature an entire sequence dedicated to naked skateboarding.
30
The movie tries for propulsive Tarantino grit but ends up being just another annoying example of Hollywood’s addiction to stories in which graying white men bed beautiful young women and beat up men much more youthful and fit than they are.
