| 80 |
LA Weekly
Lewd, crude and occasionally too brutal to take, it's also gorgeous, heartfelt.
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| 80 |
Newsweek
Louise Rosen
A highly entertaining movie in a genre that is often as stiff as the Lady Gibson's boning.
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| 79 |
Mr. Showbiz
A cross between a Hogarth painting and an MTV video, Plunkett & Macleane cuts quite a swath.
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| 75 |
Boston Globe
Scott makes it easy to overlook the conventionality beneath his sometimes overdone but almost always enjoyable combination of atmosphere and propulsiveness.
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| 63 |
Baltimore Sun
Milton Kent
Too much fun to ignore.
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| 63 |
Miami Herald
A tad too raunchy for its own good.
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| 60 |
TV Guide
It's vulgar, to be sure, but it's also brash and invigorating.
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| 60 |
Chicago Reader
This buddy movie grows on you.
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| 60 |
Dallas Observer
Its greatest flaw is the casting of Miller ("Trainspotting," "Hackers"), who continues to have virtually no screen presence...For all that, Plunkett & Macleane is fun.
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| 50 |
Charlotte Observer
The whole thing seems to have been faked up for our amusement, like a circus freak show.
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| 50 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
Cheerful mishmash.
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| 50 |
USA Today
The plunk-ing of a rap/disco soundtrack onto a movie about debtors' prisons and 18th century British highwaymen?
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| 50 |
New York Daily News
Its noisily inappropriate pop-rock score overwhelms its meager subplots about British class conflict.
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| 50 |
The New York Times
None of it adds up to terribly much beyond a rip-roaring adventure that shows off Carlyle and Miller as cynical British city cousins of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
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| 50 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
There's not an original idea rattling around in the empty-headed but gorgeous-to-behold period film.
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| 50 |
Entertainment Weekly
Watchable in a facile, trashy way. Unfortunately, most of the movie is mired in sludge, slime, mud, blood, and studiously dank cinematography.
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| 40 |
Film.com
It doesn't really hang together. And waaay too much style. Pity.
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| 40 |
Austin Chronicle
Rollicking is the term that best sums up Plunkett and Macleane, not in itself a bad thing, just, I think, not a very good thing.
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| 38 |
Chicago Tribune
Scott treats the material as if it were grist for a 30-second spot or a rowdy music video.
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| 38 |
New York Post
A noisy, amateurish mess that doesn't work on any level - an extended, clich-ridden MTV video set to anachronistic bad music.
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| 38 |
Chicago Sun-Times
A film overgrown with so many directorial flourishes that the heroes need machetes to hack their way to within view of the audience.
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| 30 |
Village Voice
Gary Daupin
The script is as full of holes as some of the highwaymen's bullet-riddled victims -- why not throw a drum-and-bass track over everything?
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| 30 |
Washington Post
No darn good.
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| 25 |
Portland Oregonian
An ugly, stupid movie it turned out to be. Incoherent, arbitrary, hyperactive and dark enough to make you fear you've gone blind.
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| 25 |
San Francisco Chronicle
A repellent, stupid film.
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| 20 |
Los Angeles Times
Jan Stewart
Everything is stunningly photographed by John Mathieson, but to paraphrase Gertrude Stein, a cockroach is a cockroach is a cockroach.
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| 5 |
TNT RoughCut
Daysun Chang
An empty void of tasteless action, formula plot, and dull dialogue set in a sadly under-utilized time period.
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