WasAnnon Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Phillida Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Francene Odetta It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

ritera1 This farted out at every angle and really didn't need to. Probably due to the inept direction of a TV producer with a string a failures. I should have known when the opening credits were the graphics from "Fresh Prince of Bel Air".A few good ariel shots that went on---and on---and on---Willis? Goodman? For starters, why? Not like you're going to get an Oscar-worthy performance from Willis, but this guy still commands as much as a million per day. Why---this? The entire thing probably only cost a couple million. He walked through it and sounded and looked very tired. Very old. Didn't make him look good.How do you then get a weary performance from Goodman? Slightly amusing in the 2nd half but too little, too late. Essentally a plot you've seen a 1000 times before that could have been colorful and funny, given the setting. It even had a f'ing dog for poops sake. But nope! Wandered for quite a bit on jokes I'm sure everybody throught were just hilarious before any sort of story began. Grafitti on the side of an apartment building and this can't get solved the next day?Willis watches the girl he's after step out of a car and enter a motel. THEN he asks a male prostitute if he's seen the girl? (Willis even drove a slow car.) The lazy logistics of Willis and Goodman just walking into the black bar with a shotgun and hand grenade. And why didn't the black gangster run when the grenade was dropped? The bad guy real estate investor signed and notarized a contract for grafitti? And just as lazy cursory character archs, tacked on. A decent cast, though, of B and C listers who actually tried, especially Thomas Middleditch. Do they all hang out at the same bar in Malibu? This is what they do on a lark? I'm actually thinking some sort of modern day "The Producers" accounting scam to make money on a losing movie.It's cause they know I'm a sucker for a decent trailer, isn't it? I KNEW IT!

tornadojimbelino This movie is Mesmerizing. Bruce Willis stars as Steve Ford a down and out ex-cop turned gum-shoe detective who loses his dog and involves himself in hilariously unfunny escapades in an effort to get the mutt back. If Thomas Middleditch's 'Verizon' commercials make you fall off the couch with laughter then this movie is for you. I don't know why I kept watching 'Venice'. At first, I guess I was hoping it was going to be another 'The Whole Ten Yards'. The writers play on every cult movie cliché and basically rewrote their own versions of 'Pulp Fiction' and hoped no one would notice. "Once Upon a Time in Venice" is a movie to watch when your remote control stops working and you are too lazy to check the batteries. The one saving grace is Jessica Gomes frontal nude scene. Sadly it lasts less than five seconds. John Goodman also stars in this fiasco and 'acts' like he was doing someone a favor just by showing up. I wholeheartedly suggest that you make an effort to watch 'Once Upon A Time in Venice' and then try to stop watching it.

DeuceWild_77 "Once Upon a Time in Venice" (a.k.a. "L.A. Rush") is a funny film, not funny / hilarious, but more a funny / entertaining & harmless flick that reminds a lot the Shane Black's penned works such as Willis' own "The Last Boy Scout" or "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" and the early 90's offbeat action comedies such as "The Adventures of Ford Fairlane". It's not as clever as the flicks above mentioned & the humor is a bit juvenile oriented, but it isn't as bad as the other reviewers mentioned here and, in fact, it's one of the first Bruce Willis' movies in a long time, that he's awake during it and acting with conviction like if he's interested in the material, not in the sleepwalking mode / 'gimme 5 million for a 10 minutes cameo with me bored to death performing in it' of his latest roles. Bruce is here in top form for his age, making a parody of his most iconic characters like John McClane & Joe Hallenbeck and even a certain humorous scene reminiscent of his Butch Coolidge in "Pulp Fiction". The supporting cast is full of well-known faces: Famke Janssen; John Goodman in his usual "best & faithful friend, but a loser" role; Adam Goldberg; Christopher MacDonald; David Arquette & Jason Momoa, who surprisingly delivers a good performance spoofing a manly, but sensitive leader of a Mexican street gang. Verdict: it's a nicely paced little comic flick which went straight-to-DVD in most of the countries, but deserves to be seen at least once. For fans of an unpretentious action / comedy, not for the 'thinking man', just for an amusing and lazy Sunday afternoon at the movies.

Sherazade I stopped watching the minute I spotted grandpa Willis (butt naked) being beaten up and eventually chased through the streets by the brothers of the twenty-something year old woman he had just slept with. I like grandpa Willis but I really think it's time for him to retire if these are the kind of scripts that are landing in his agent's inbox.