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7.5 out of 10

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  1. SoozH.
    Jul 5, 2003
    10
    Oh my gosh! Of *course* this movie is a parody of the fantastical crime plots! It was great! It's a little Pulp Fiction meets everyothercrimeplottedmovie! It's easy to see what will happen next, but that's the charm! Delightfully entertaining, and, yes, probably better at home with a glass of wine and a loved one than in the theaters with greasy popcorn and whiney children...but sure...take me away from life for a while and let me believe in movies again!… Expand
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  2. TedA.
    Feb 8, 2003
    8
    This movie was a bit odd but very enjoyable. Dreyfuss was wasted unfortunaltely.
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  3. [Anonymous]
    Aug 11, 2002
    9
    This is a very enjoyable movie. This is one case where I am glad that I did not read any reviews before seeing the movie. I have not laughed and had as much fun at a movie in a long time. This is the best role I have seen Tim Allen in, and Christian Slater was very good as well.
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  4. ChadS.
    Aug 24, 2002
    5
    Never boring, "Who is Cletis Tout" is never exciting either. It has an okay script delivered by some okay actors under the guidance of an okay director. Like "My Big Fat Greek Wedding", it's an art-house film for beginners. With Tim Allen on board, whatever attempts to be cutting edge is blunted by an actor who has yet to fully transcend his television past. In my mind, Trevor(Slater) is being held hostage by Bob Villa. And we don't get that jolt when the film reverts back to the opening scene ala "Pulp Fiction". It's an unfair comparison but writer/director Chris Ver Wiel forces you to evoke Tarantino since the action takes place at a diner. Also, the law enforcement are as feeble as parents are in certain youth-oriented movies when Trevor has to transfer the diamonds to Tess(Portia DeRossi). Not believable for a second but it is a fun sequence. What's not fun is the old-fashioned Hollywood ending which Ver Wiel feels he can get away with because Critical Jim(Allen) is a film buff. Slater and DeRossi don't have enough chemistry to pull this off. "... Cletis Tout?", however, is a painless affair and well-worth the price of a rental, or tuning into when it shows up on cable.… Expand
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  5. JamesScoopy
    Jan 10, 2003
    8
    A cute little film. It is not without flaws, but it has so much charm that I overlooked and weak spots.
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  6. AlV.
    Jan 3, 2003
    9
    This movie had me glued to my chair! It's extremely entertaining, but make sure you pay attention. Lots of stuff is happening all at one time and you may get lost in the plots - that's what kept it from getting a perfect 10.
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  7. Digithrope
    Mar 19, 2003
    0
    So bad i could only sit through 20 minutes. it felt as though the whole thing had been cobbled together by a bureaucracy of retarded money-grubbing smellhounds. i walked out of my own living room and demanded that i give the money back to myself.
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  8. LyndseyM.
    Mar 27, 2003
    8
    I really enjoyed this...a little offbeat, but that's part of what I like. Do the big-budget movie makers pay off these critics and reviewers?!
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  9. LeeF.
    Jul 11, 2004
    9
    Watched this on video...it intrigued me. again the critics were wrong! it was entertaining...there were a couple of things you had to 'overlook' (too fast of a train, etc), but we chalked it up to Cletis/Finch's 'memory' or things (boy that was a REALLY fast train). Tim Allen's Singing in the Rain homage was great at the end!
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Metascore
36 out of 100

Generally unfavorable - based on 20 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 20
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 20
  3. Negative: 9 out of 20
  1. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Stephen Hunter
    80
    A caper film of such postmodernist pretense that it's almost a parody of itself.
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  2. Charlotte Observer
    Reviewed by: Lawrence Toppman
    50
    The yarn itself is a winning one.
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  3. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    63
    There was a lot I liked in Cletis Tout, including the performances and the very audacity of details like the magic tricks and the carrier pigeons. But it seemed a shame that the writer and director, Chris Ver Wiel, took a perfectly sound story idea and complicated it into an exercise in style. Less is more.
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