I love this movie so much

Excellent film with a gripping story!

Beautiful, moving film.

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

I started watching this one with my wife and could honestly only get through about 30 minutes before telling her it was unwatchable. Spoiler- I turned to my wife and said "Someone actually came to Bruce Willis with a script that said you've got a scene where you ride a skateboard naked down a busy road in a chase scene then end up being pulled over by a cop. Next in an effort to hide your gun you have to shove it in your butt crack." Of course, Mr. Willis being the accomplished actor he is replied "THAT ROLE IS FOR ME." I thought I took out an action flick from the library, which I'm sure at some point it becomes. I just didn't have the patience to wait for this thing to become what I was looking for. As they say, it just wasn't my cup of tea, therefore the one star review.

Once Upon A Time In Venice is one of the worst, most annoying films of the year and in recent memory. With the exception of a quite funny Jason Momoa, no one involved in this debacle walks away with their dignity intact. So many bad lines, so many missed opportunities, so many embarrassing acting moments, and so few reasons to sit through 90 minutes of a lackluster Bruce Willis wondering around Venice Beach aimlessly for his dog. Sadly Willis and especially John Goodman seem more lost than the pet they are trying to find. As I mentioned before, the only actor who brings anything to the table is Momoa, which is surprising, especially given what little he had to work with. He scores all the laughs in the film, that's right, both of them, mainly because of his deadpan execution of an otherwise run of the mill antagonist. This movie has no reason to exist and no story to tell and speaking of stories, once upon a time there was an actor who tried, then the 90s ended, he went bald, and just stopped caring. That's the end of the story and Bruce Willis's career.

I didn't expect this to be a comedy film before watching it; that caught me off guard. In this film random things happen and there's no real goal in sight. One of the main goals, which is ridiculous, is to catch a vandal that keeps spray painting a building with obscene graffiti.. While attempting to capture him, the same outcome happens each time on different days; this is an example of lazy script writing. I also didn't like the repetitive aspect of a pausing narrative to either introduce a character, or to slowly explain something for the audience since the script writer believed the audience is uneducated..

Disgraced former LAPD Steve Ford (Bruce Willis) is the only licensed private detective on Venice Beach. The narrator John (Thomas Middleditch) is his eager assistant. Surf shop owner Dave (John Goodman) is his best friend. It's a series of odd cases. Lou the Jew (Adam Goldberg) is desperate to catch the vandal painting lewd graffiti on his building. Drug dealer Spider (Jason Momoa) kidnaps Steve's dog from his sister-in-law Katey (Famke Janssen)'s house and forces him to do a job.Bruce Willis used to be fun during Moonlighting and Die Hard. Somewhere along the line, he lost all the joy in his eyes. Him skateboarding in the streets naked should be hilarious but the humor is flat. It's very tiring when wackiness don't illicit joy. It's a long line of jokes that don't seem to work. It has to be Willis. Goodman is his second-in-command and he looks gaunt. Hopefully, he's just on a diet but the jolly isn't there. In better days, some of these gags would have been funny.