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Mixed or average reviews - based on 30 Critics What's this?

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Generally favorable reviews- based on 8 Ratings

  • Starring: Hugh Grant, James Caan, Jeanne Tripplehorn
  • Summary: After discovering the shady identity of his girlfriend's father, an English art-house auctioneer (Grant) finds himself inadvertently laundering money through his auction house, becoming an accessory to murder, and having to pass himself off as the notorious Mickey Blue Eyes. (Castle Rock Entertainment) Expand
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 30
  2. Negative: 4 out of 30
  1. Reviewed by: Lael Lowenstein
    90
    An engaging, often very funny fish-out-of-water story that provides Hugh Grant with his best part to date.
  2. Reviewed by: Rod Dreher
    75
    An enjoyable minor-league lark. But another "Notting Hill?" Fuhgeddaboutit.
  3. 60
    Many of the gags rely on the incongruity of Grant's nervous, cultured character posing as an Italian-American stereotype, but they're subverted by his earnest relationship with his fiancee, whose affection hardly seems worth the trouble.
  4. An uninspired, recycled Mafia gags caper.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 3
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 3
  3. Negative: 1 out of 3
  1. JaredB.
    0
    This movie, despite some funny lines and situations, sinks faster than the Titanic. Not even the presence of such normally reliable actors, such as Hugh Grant, James Caan, and Burt Young, can save this contrived mess. Expand

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