"No Saving Grace"
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What You Need To Know:
Non-stop foul language and approval of cocaine use irreparably mar this sometimes interesting morality play. The murders of his relatives puts Bobby in a nostalgic mood as he views slides of photos from times when he, his relatives and Jackie were younger boys, playing and cavorting in friendlier times. His solution to his dilemma regarding Jackie, however, is an immoral one based on revenge. He also leads his cousins on a wild spree of cocaine and alcohol a couple times, an activity which the movie seems to approve. The lack of morality, much less spirituality, in the movie’s worldview makes this gangster melodrama a nihilistic exercise and a wasted opportunity.
Content:
(HH, AbAbAb, LLL, VV, S, AA, DDD, MMM) Humanist worldview with strong criminal immorality & revenge motif; at least 350 obscenities, 33 profanities plus some crude discussion of sex; moderate but brief violence, such as hitman shoots ex-con to death, implied murder, field hockey game violence, woman slaps man, protagonist goads racist buddy to go ahead & kill a black man in the neighborhood but friend chickens out, & protagonist shoots & kills two men in revenge; implied fornication plus some crude discussion of sex; scenes of alcohol use & drunkenness; scenes of smoking & cocaine use; and, stealing cars, strong gangsterism, kidnapping, racism (rebuked), cruelty (rebuked), revenge, & police corruption.
More Detail:
A low-level Irish gangster in Boston finds his relatives gunned down in the crime drama MONUMENT AVE. Denis Leary plays Bobby, a cocaine-snorting car thief under the pay of the neighborhood crime boss, Jackie O’Hara. Although Jackie is generous with his money and friendship, he has increasingly turned the local neighborhood into an ever more fearful place to live. When Jackie’s ruthless ways target Bobby’s criminal relatives, Bobby must decide whether to stand up against Jackie or run away from the town and neighborhood he loves.
Non-stop foul language and approval of cocaine use irreparably mar this sometimes interesting morality play. The murders of his relatives puts Bobby in a reflective, nostalgic mood as he views slides of photos from times when he, his relatives and Jackie were younger boys, playing and cavorting in friendlier times. His solution to his dilemma regarding Jackie, however, is an immoral one based on revenge. Bobby also leads his cousins on a wild spree of cocaine and alcohol a couple times in the movie, an activity which the movie seems to approve. Finally, instead of verbally rebuking a racist buddy who’s concerned about black people moving into their white neighborhood, Bobby takes a black man hostage during one night of carousing and goads his buddy to go ahead and kill the man. Of course, the racist buddy chickens out, but for a moment, it seems that Bobby just might kill the man himself.
The lack of morality, much less spirituality, in the movie’s worldview makes this gangster melodrama a nihilistic exercise and a wasted opportunity. Ultimately, there’s no saving grace on this MONUMENT AVE.
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