Never Die Alone
Seen it?2004 | 88 min | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Monday Morning Maybeearly ratingWhy it’s a Monday Morning Maybe
With just 26% on Rotten Tomatoes, a lukewarm 44% audience score and soft box office, this one could be a tough watch. Keep your phone handy.
Based on critics, audiences, awards, box office and buzz. Details below.Is it for you?
- Who'll love it
- Made for fans of a good revenge story and spy-story fans. A revenge story, so expect the pressure to build to a reckoning. Same wavelength as GoodFellas. Nobody is quite who they seem.
- The mood
- Tense, dark and gritty.
- The pace
- Takes its time with its characters, at 1 hr 28 min. Short enough for a weeknight.
- What might put you off
- Rated R: expect violence.
- Skip it if you prefer quiet, talky stories.
A drug kingpin's rise and tragic fall is witnessed vicariously by a reporter who uses the criminal's diary as the basis for his new book.
How it earned its rating
- CriticsWeak
26% on Rotten Tomatoes, 38 on Metacritic
- AudiencesBelow par
Our audience score: 44%
- AwardsNot counted
No major awards or nominations
- Box office & staying powerBelow par
$6 million worldwide on a $3 million budget
- Buzz & cultural impactBelow par
About 55K people sought it out in the past year
Trailer
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Cast & crew
Directed by Ernest R. Dickerson
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