Directed and edited by Randall Miller, the film features a number of actors from his far superior, actually lucid film Bottle Shock including Rickman, who delivers one of his signature, scenery-chewing, I’m-so-bad-I’m-good performances, and Bill Pullman as Detective Max Mariner, a mumbling, extraneous police investigator shoehorned into an already incoherent plot. Mary Steenburgen, Shawn Hatosy and Eliza Dushku round out the cast of this over-amped, under-conceived melee.
Grade: D
Nobel Son releases in theaters Dec. 5.