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Mean Machine
2001
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Mean Machine
Positive Reviews
7
Negative reviews
5
Average Rating
2.5
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3.8
The formula is familiar but enjoyable.A group of British tough guys are assembled for an enterprise that combines violence with humor, while cherishin ..
Rogerebert
3.0
Its entirely predictable in that lets enjoy it for what it is kind of way, but it just mixed too many different genres to work entirely as a whole.
JoBlo
2.5
A past his prime football superstar gets thrown in jail for drunk driving.
Tv Guide
1.5
Nevertheless, the film doesnt even go far enough in that direction to make it much fun.
Screen It
1.0
Debutante director Barry Skolnick must take a lot of the blame for this and the uncertainly of tone: brutal violence one minute, utter farce the next.
View London
3.5
But if the plot takes few chances, Mean Machine more than meets its pulp goals.
Film Journal
2.2
After too many Full Montys, it has come to look like nothing so much as a coy ritual of emasculation.
Ew
3.0
Its a funny old game, apparently full of unbelievable comebacks and last minute reprieves.
Empire
3.0
Its guaranteed to make you laugh... but whether thats at it or with it is a matter of taste.
Bbc
3.5
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Calendar Live
1.0
Yawn.Skolnick tried to capture the essence of a Guy Ritchie movieherky jerky camerawork edgy stylisticsbut somehow it still feels rote and uninspired.
Hollywood
2.5
Theres just no juice to this thing, merely a bunch of fitfully funny gags and a climactic football match that, under Skolnicks direction, fails to sho ..
Seattle Pi
2.5
You realize that not only is Vinnie Jones no Burt Reynolds ... but, as a source of structured cinematic mayhem anyway, soccer is no football.
The Star
2.0
If the plot sounds more than a little familiar chances are youve seen Burt Reynolds in the 1974 prison movie of the same name.
Raidió Teilifís Éireann
2.5
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Kansas City
3.1
A fairly enjoyable mixture of Longest Yard ... and the 1999 Guy Ritchie caper Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
Seattle Times
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