You will love this movie if you appreciate superb acting, great dialogue, excellent script, top-notch direction. Otherwise,you will hate it. Pacino, Walken and Arkin create and deliver more emotional drama with facial expressions alone than can the majority of today's younger wannabe "actors". Al Pacino rightfully claims the title to being one of the greatest of all actors, and arguably the greatest living actor. Christopher Walken's screen presence is huge. The movie is in essence an extended dialogue between him and Pacino and what a delicious combination it is. This movie is a gem.

I had no expectations whatsoever when I put the player on and had this movie rolling. And what a great surprise it was when I saw myself tremendously enjoying a great movie with two of my beloved actors, Pacino and Walken, who superbly underacted their roles to produce a magnificent climax from beginning to end.Oh man, it was such a delight to watch these two veteran actors, acting side by side as smoothly as breathing, giving the impression of having a great time all along. Everything so simple, so cool!The movie was just fun, sentimental, even dark, supported by an amazing blues-rock soundtrack and a fantastic all around acting.One might argue it's not really a great movie. I don't care. For me it was! It made me feel real good!

Before I wrote this, I checked out some of the other reviews and, based on what I read, you're probably not going to agree with me. Apparently, from what I've seen, the majority of people who watched 'Stand Up Guys' really enjoyed it.I'm not saying that it wasn't an okay film, but, based on having two of the greatest actors in the leading roles, I thought it was going to be better than it was.Christopher Walken plays a hit-man who's charged with the task of 'offing' Al Pacino who has been released from prison after 28 years. The only trouble is... they're friends and so Walken takes Pacino on one last night of hell-raising.It's a good premise and it is at its best when it's sentimental. However, it was also billed as a 'comedy' and I didn't find that much to laugh at (primary some smutty jokes about the problems elderly men have between the sheets and that's about it).Pacino overacts and Walken underacts. And, no matter how great the actors are (and they are great!), the somewhat average script makes little more than an average movie.I didn't hate it. It passed an hour and a half. It's just I was expecting better, but, like I say, there are a lot of very positive 4 and 5 star reviews, so what do I know?

I wasn't paying attention when this movie came out, so I didn't know it came out.Had an urge to watch something with Walken in it and so I watched Seven Psychopaths and while studying Walken in that picture I was reminded of Al Pacino and wondered if they ever were in a flick together. So, I googled and found this gem of a movie.Hollywood missed a big ticket not teaming those two up decades ago.What a fun movie to watch: I loved watching the dialog between Walken and Pacino so much, I had to watch it twice.My only complaint is that it wasn't long enough of a ride. Loved the dead pan humor and I just couldn't get enough.If you are a fan of Pacino and Walken this is a MUST see. A bit sad to see them both aged and myself aged, but yet there is a warmth to the sadness. Boy, I hope the two get casted together at least one more time. Why the rating on IMDb is so low is beyond me. I'll be watching it again eventually because I enjoyed it so much.I wish I could personally thank the writer, the director, the casting people and especially whoever it was that first suggested to get Pacino and Walken for this movie. The script was perfect for the two of them and they were golden.