Mean MachineMovie Reviews

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  • 88
    Philadelphia Inquirer | Steven Rea

    A likably energetic star vehicle for English sports god Vinnie Jones. Read full review

  • 75
    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

  • 63
    Chicago Tribune | Robert K. Elder

    Sports movies are never easy to pull off, but Skolnick does a fine job of balancing the drama with the on-field action. Read full review

  • 50
    San Francisco Chronicle | Edward Guthmann

    Takes a long time getting started and doesn't hit its stride until Danny starts coaching a team of fellow cons -- think "Bad News Bears," just nastier. Read full review

  • 50
    Wall Street Journal | Joe Morgenstern

    Against heavy odds, Mean Machine adds darker flavors to the plot without curdling it. Beneath the comic craziness is real craziness, and desperation. These goal-kicking, bone-crunching cons are both actors in and prisoners of their own horror show. Read full review

  • 50
    Boston Globe | Jay Carr

    More machine than mean, although it's anything but a smoothly running operation. Read full review

  • 50
    New York Daily News | Elizabeth Weitzman

    In Mean Machine, soccer is pretty much an excuse to watch a bunch of grown men smashing their heads together. Which, come to think of it, may be enough. Read full review

  • 50
    Miami Herald | Rene Rodriguez

    Disappointingly straightforward remake. Read full review

  • 50
    New York Post | Lou Lumenick

    Accomplishes a near miracle -- this British import makes you yearn for Burt Reynolds, who appeared in a vastly more entertaining version of the same story. Read full review

  • 42
    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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