NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

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

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Raymond Sierra The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

GUENOT PHILIPPE That's the perfect example of what the independent movie industry may give from time to time. And since a decade now, we often see such kind of films, sort of mix up of documentary dramas, describing petty hoodlumsliving in their districts. In the most realistic way. No heroes here. There are tons of those films. Some atmosphere here reminds me James Gray's features, like LITTLE ODESSA and THE YARDS. And also Phil Joanou's STATE OF GRACE. But these are only a few examples. I prefer that to the big Hollywood blockbusters. Pure crap for me, with their damned superheroes. I also noticed that the director Ted Demme passed away in 2002. Such a shame, this movie maker seemed gifted and he probably could have given us more inventive and powerful crime dramas like this one.

Tony Mastrogiorgio Eventually, Monument Ave will get its due. It is a terrifically realized slice of hoodlum life, a story about a near escape from a cycle of hopeless violence and dis pear. Dennis Leary proved he could act right here.It also suggests, along with the better-than-it-had-a-right-to-be Beautiful Girl, that Ted Demme was just tapping the surface of potentially great career when he died. He and Leary may have combined on a handful of classics if Demme had lived. As much as I like The Departed and Mystic River, this is the movie that really captures the gangster life in South Boston. If you like movies like Force of Evil, Friends of Eddie Coyle and other hard-edged crime pictures, check it out.

the_skunkwerks what can i say,I'm a born & raised Boston boy.I'm from the opposite side of the city from where this film takes place. the area, Charleston dose have a code of silence cloaking the hoods.similar to the way the southie-OC projects feel,eve after the winter hill gang has become less visible.i don't live in Boston anymore,but i remember home vividly.i caught monument ave in the theater,in Copley sq.-Boston when it came into the theaters.riveted the the screen i was.the lifestyle the local hooligan lives is not one of irresponsibility.all his action are seen,maybe not by law enforcement.but by other hoods.they live with many vices,expensive booze-hard drugs & cheap women.and the nice girls they find usually get hurt. a criminals code of conduct is the standard they live by,and its always evolving to meet the situation.friends become foe's. the misguided become martyrs. and life go's on.watch this film,and understand that this is how many men live their life.

Lucian-4 Dennis Leary is really great in this movie. I was surprised to see him do such a convincing job. The movie seems kind of unfinished, and a slightly bigger budget probably would have helped. A little too much of the f-word in some seems. Still it was entertaining and touching. And Greg Dulli of the Afghan Whigs was really cool as coke-dealer/hitman Shang.