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In
the dark action comedy The Family, a mafia boss and his family are relocated to
a sleepy town in France under the witness protection program after snitching on
the mob. Despite the best efforts of Agent Stansfield (Tommy Lee Jones) to keep
them in line, Fred Manzoni (Robert DeNiro), his wife Maggie (Michelle Pfeiffer)
and their children Belle (Dianna Agron) and Warren (John D’Leo) can't help but
revert to old habits and blow their cover by handling their problems the
“family” way, enabling their former mafia cronies to track them down. Chaos
ensues as old scores are settled in the unlikeliest of settings in this darkly
funny film by Luc Besson ("Taken," "Transporter").
Was
this movie supposed to be a comedy? Or a drama? Or an action movie? It really
couldn't decide and ended up going back and forth way too much. This pretty
much ruined the movie and made it be one of those movies that are just kind of
there. The climactic scene was great but the movie was way to scattered for the
90 minutes prior.
I
wouldn't recommend anyone bothering with this movie. It had some decent moments
but nothing but muddled mess outside of them.
