Just Getting Started

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PG-13,

2017,

1h 31m,

Holiday/

Comedy

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Duke Diver is living the high life as the freewheeling manager of a luxurious resort in Palm Springs, Calif. He soon faces competition from Leo, a former military man who likes the same woman that Duke is interested in. When Diver's past suddenly catches up with him, he must put aside his differences and reluctantly team up with Leo to stop whoever is trying to kill him.

Critics Consensus

A thoroughly unfunny misfire, Just Getting Started manages the incredible feat of wasting more than a century of combined acting experience from its three talented leads.

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Andrea Gronvall

Chicago Reader

Mar 25, 2020

The producers must think this drivel is what their senior target audience wants, but only someone who's lost an appetite for real life could find any entertainment in it.

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Ben Sachs

Chicago Reader

Dec 14, 2017

The climactic 20 minutes of Just Getting Started are so lazily directed that I wondered why Shelton bothered trying to put action into the movie at all.

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Marc Savlov

Austin Chronicle

Dec 14, 2017

0.5/5

If this is what the "golden years" are going to be like, count me out.

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Francis X. Friel

Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Mar 21, 2019

2/5

Scripts this bad will sometimes seem fun with enough enthusiasm behind or in front of the camera, but the star power on display isn't enough to make this anything but a (hopefully) forgettable misstep for all involved.

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Allen Adams

The Maine Edge

Feb 8, 2019

0/5

Just Getting Started never actually gets started, sputtering along until it finally loses steam and creaks to a predictable conclusion. It isn't funny, it isn't engaging and it just isn't any good.

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Jim Lane

Sacramento News & Review

Dec 21, 2017

1/5

The movie is a ghastly, ramshackle mess, lurching from gag to clunking gag and exacerbated by Barry Peterson's harsh cinematography, making everyone look considerably older than they are.

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Kylo W

Jan 28, 2019

This movie felt like it was mission core elements the whole time. The actors's performances, despite being all very renown actors was not as great as expected, in fact the emotions and jokes where pretty dull as well. It's just another ordinary average performance because of the script writing and movie directing style affected their roles. I would say a lousy writing and script is what leads to these great actors not performing well. The was there but sadly it was a disaster as it was to serious in that aspect and sarcastic and hard to get sometimes. The sounds where great but the complete lack of music in certain scenes did not help the movie overall. It was a rushed plot-less movie which would have done a lot better if it where a TV short, because the plot was lacking a lot of content to the base. Overall this is a flawed movie down to the core and it is very disappointing even despite having some elements as entertainment and fun handled well. It is an average movie which could have been a lot better if not for lack of sheer content.

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George M

Dec 31, 2018

Harmless: the protagonists had fun, we less, but at their age they deserved it. (Mauro Lanari)

Ron R

Dec 16, 2018

For the lineup - this movie was terrible...an old man's pissing contest

Oct 7, 2018

Great actors. Sorry film. Seems that only the Brits are great at that type of film. In this film, old women appear cheap and tacky while the men just decrepit. Pity.

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Aug 27, 2018

Comical and endearing... even older actors can still make audiences tickle with laughter. Good movie to watch. Did not disappoint.

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Aug 10, 2018

Love the cast, but nothing new.

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Synopsis

Duke Diver is living the high life as the freewheeling manager of a luxurious resort in Palm Springs, Calif. He soon faces competition from Leo, a former military man who likes the same woman that Duke is interested in. When Diver's past suddenly catches up with him, he must put aside his differences and reluctantly team up with Leo to stop whoever is trying to kill him.

Director: Ron Shelton
Producer: Bill Gerber, Steve Richards
Screenwriter: Ron Shelton
Distributor: Broad Green Pictures
Production Co: Gerber Pictures, Endurance Media
Rating: PG-13 (Language|Brief Violence|Suggestive Material)
Genre: Holiday, Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Dec 8, 2017, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 27, 2018
Box Office (Gross USA): $5.5M
Runtime: 1h 31m
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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