Rotten Tomatoes: 10% If ever you want proof that Robert De Niro isn't what he once was, or that actors definitely sign on to movies for little more than a payday, go and watch The Bag Man. In it De Niro plays a gangster who tasks John Cusack's tough guy (yeah... sure) with an odd job, which is a reasonable enough concept. Unfortunately the film is so self-consciously quirky and so invested in how cool it wants to be that it forgets about the serious business of actually being a film, and while De Niro is clearly having fun, the film feels like someone who wasn't really paying attention tried to make a Tarantino gangster flick. Sample Review:
"Alas, listening to De Niro's criminal bigwig Dragna casually describe how he was motivated to take up his underworld profession by an episode of Full House isn't enough to salvage David Grovic's dreary directorial debut." Nick Schager, Village Voice
