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Mickey Blue Eyes
Warner Brothers
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for brief strong language, some violence and sensuality
Starring
Hugh Grant,
James Caan,
and
Jeanne Tripplehorn
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)
| GENRE(S): |
Romance
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Adam Scheinman
Robert Kuhn
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Kelly Makin
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: December 28, 1999
Video: December 28, 1999
Theatrical: August 20, 1999
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| RUNNING TIME: |
101 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
90
Variety
Lael Lowenstein
An engaging, often very funny fish-out-of-water story that provides Hugh Grant with his best part to date.
83
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
Has a slight bite.
75
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
Grant handles the slapstick humor gracefully and speaks his lines with sincerity and warmth.
75
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
It brings an enlivening wit to a comedy of culture collision.
75
New York Post
Rod Dreher
An enjoyable minor-league lark. But another "Notting Hill?" Fuhgeddaboutit.
70
Time
Richard Schickel
Director Kelly Makin has a gift for casually tossed-off farce.
70
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
A lightweight comedy that has more than enough laughs to justify its silly, scatterbrained premise.
70
Village Voice
Jessica Winter
The last half hour bogs down badly, with a cynical fake-out ending and a final scene that borders on non-sensical.
70
Newsweek
Anjali Arora
Though the movie suffers from an underdeveloped plot, it does benefit from solid acting.
63
USA Today
Mike Clark
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."
63
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
While Grant is sublime, the "Godfather" spoof he's in sleeps with the fishes.
63
Baltimore Sun
Ann Hornaday
A bland also-ran in a post-"Sopranos" universe.
60
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
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.
59
Mr. Showbiz
Richard T. Jameson
The farce hits the fan, and you just wait for the thing to be over.
50
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Never lets Grant develop his pidgin-Italian nice-guy-gone-sociopath routine.
50
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
A lifeless, confused mess, peppered with laughs, yes, but illogically and crudely plotted and smothered in tonedeaf music cues.
50
Miami Herald
Phoebe Flowers
More than adequate performances by Grant and Caan, who play off each other with a relative degree of aplomb.
50
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
With preposterously convoluted plot twists, not even Grant is enough to make us smile all the way through the end.
50
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
A limply derivative, disappointingly trivial and hokey fish-out-of-water crime comedy.
50
LA Weekly
F. X. Feeney
An abbondanza of busy, situation comedy twists that snip one's suspended disbelief and send it crashing like a chandelier.
50
San Francisco Examiner
Wesley Morris
As insulting as taking the queen to the Olive Garden.
50
Dallas Observer
Scott Kelton Jones
All set-up, no soul... Nothing here is that inspired, that clever.
50
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
After the bite and freshness of "Analyze This," Mickey Blue Eyes plays like an afterthought.
50
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
It strains to hard for laughs, with stale jokes about unweildy corpses.
50
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Moviegoers tired of ethnic humor will find plenty to complain about.
40
TV Guide
Ken Fox
What begins as an entertainingly contrived lark soon feels like a poorly plotted muddle.
30
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
About as funny as digging your own grave in an unmarked part of New Jersey.
30
Salon.com
Mary Elizabeth Williams
An uninspired, recycled Mafia gags caper.
25
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
A sour misfire.
10
Film.com
Sean Means
Atrocious comedy.
 The average user rating for this movie is 7.0 (out of 10) based on 5 User Votes
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