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Mickey Blue Eyes
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49 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 30 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 30
  2. Mixed: 14 out of 30
  3. Negative: 4 out of 30
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  1. Variety
    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. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: William Arnold
    83
    Has a slight bite.
  3. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Rod Dreher
    75
    An enjoyable minor-league lark. But another "Notting Hill?" Fuhgeddaboutit.
  4. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Jay Carr
    75
    It brings an enlivening wit to a comedy of culture collision.
  5. Charlotte Observer
    Reviewed by: Lawrence Toppman
    75
    Grant handles the slapstick humor gracefully and speaks his lines with sincerity and warmth.
  6. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Jessica Winter
    70
    The last half hour bogs down badly, with a cynical fake-out ending and a final scene that borders on non-sensical.
  7. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    70
    A lightweight comedy that has more than enough laughs to justify its silly, scatterbrained premise.
  8. Newsweek
    Reviewed by: Anjali Arora
    70
    Though the movie suffers from an underdeveloped plot, it does benefit from solid acting.
  9. Time
    Reviewed by: Richard Schickel
    70
    Director Kelly Makin has a gift for casually tossed-off farce.
  10. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Carrie Rickey
    63
    While Grant is sublime, the "Godfather" spoof he's in sleeps with the fishes.
  11. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Mike Clark
    63
    The beauty here is in the set-up, which offers Hugh Grant a role to match his star-making turn in "Four Weddings and a Funeral."
  12. Baltimore Sun
    Reviewed by: Ann Hornaday
    63
    A bland also-ran in a post-"Sopranos" universe.
  13. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Lisa Alspector
    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.
  14. Mr. Showbiz
    Reviewed by: Richard T. Jameson
    59
    The farce hits the fan, and you just wait for the thing to be over.
  15. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    50
    After the bite and freshness of "Analyze This," Mickey Blue Eyes plays like an afterthought.
  16. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Michael Wilmington
    50
    A limply derivative, disappointingly trivial and hokey fish-out-of-water crime comedy.
  17. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: David Sterritt
    50
    Moviegoers tired of ethnic humor will find plenty to complain about.
  18. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Phoebe Flowers
    50
    More than adequate performances by Grant and Caan, who play off each other with a relative degree of aplomb.
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  19. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jami Bernard
    50
    It strains to hard for laughs, with stale jokes about unweildy corpses.
  20. San Francisco Examiner
    Reviewed by: Wesley Morris
    50
    As insulting as taking the queen to the Olive Garden.
  21. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Owen Gleiberman
    50
    Never lets Grant develop his pidgin-Italian nice-guy-gone-sociopath routine.
  22. Portland Oregonian
    Reviewed by: Shawn Levy
    50
    A lifeless, confused mess, peppered with laughs, yes, but illogically and crudely plotted and smothered in tonedeaf music cues.
  23. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: F. X. Feeney
    50
    An abbondanza of busy, situation comedy twists that snip one's suspended disbelief and send it crashing like a chandelier.
  24. Dallas Observer
    Reviewed by: Scott Kelton Jones
    50
    All set-up, no soul... Nothing here is that inspired, that clever.
  25. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kenneth Turan
    50
    With preposterously convoluted plot twists, not even Grant is enough to make us smile all the way through the end.
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  26. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    40
    What begins as an entertainingly contrived lark soon feels like a poorly plotted muddle.
  27. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Mary Elizabeth Williams
    30
    An uninspired, recycled Mafia gags caper.
  28. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Desson Thomson
    30
    About as funny as digging your own grave in an unmarked part of New Jersey.
  29. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Mick LaSalle
    25
    A sour misfire.
  30. Film.com
    Reviewed by: Sean Means
    10
    Atrocious comedy.
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User Score
6.3 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 7 Ratings

User 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.… Full Review »
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