A likably energetic star vehicle for English sports god Vinnie Jones.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
Guy Ritchie, who started out as such an innovator in "Lock, Stock, etc.," seems to have headed directly for reliable generic conventions as a producer. But they are reliable, and have become conventions for a reason: They work. Mean Machine is what it is, and very nicely, too.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kevin Thomas
Mean Machine may not have the resonance to linger in the memory affectionately as "The Longest Yard" does, but it plays well, with a fast pace and plenty of punch.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Andrew O'Hehir
I'm not sure Mean Machine is any worse than "The Longest Yard," but it lacks the nihilistic '70s background that lent the latter's combination of humor and brutality an air of (arguably bogus) social commentary.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Jay Carr
More machine than mean, although it's anything but a smoothly running operation.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Dana Stevens
The surface is rough and profane enough, and the acting sufficiently restrained, to cover the sentimental story with a varnish of gritty realism. But stylish bravado and bad-boy performances don't make the film any less predictable.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Owen Gleiberman
After too many ''Full Monty''s, it has come to look like nothing so much as a coy ritual of emasculation.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: Justine Elias
The most off-key notes here are the sentimental ones: When David Kelly shows up, reprising the wise-trustee role he had in the horticulture-behind-bars movie "Greenfingers," it's as though some twee script gremlin sneaked in and meddled with the Guy Ritchie schematics.Read Full Review »
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