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Mickey Blue Eyes
Warner Brothers


7.0

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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
WRITTEN BY:	Adam Scheinman Robert Kuhn
DIRECTED BY:	Kelly Makin
RELEASE DATE:	DVD: December 28, 1999 Video: December 28, 1999 Theatrical: August 20, 1999
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...

Variety Lael Lowenstein

An engaging, often very funny fish-out-of-water story that provides Hugh Grant with his best part to date.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold

Has a slight bite.

Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman

Grant handles the slapstick humor gracefully and speaks his lines with sincerity and warmth.

Boston Globe Jay Carr

It brings an enlivening wit to a comedy of culture collision.

New York Post Rod Dreher

An enjoyable minor-league lark. But another "Notting Hill?" Fuhgeddaboutit.

Time Richard Schickel

Director Kelly Makin has a gift for casually tossed-off farce.

The New York Times Stephen Holden

A lightweight comedy that has more than enough laughs to justify its silly, scatterbrained premise.

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.

Newsweek Anjali Arora

Though the movie suffers from an underdeveloped plot, it does benefit from solid acting.

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."

Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey

While Grant is sublime, the "Godfather" spoof he's in sleeps with the fishes.

Baltimore Sun Ann Hornaday

A bland also-ran in a post-"Sopranos" universe.

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.

Mr. Showbiz Richard T. Jameson

The farce hits the fan, and you just wait for the thing to be over.

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

Never lets Grant develop his pidgin-Italian nice-guy-gone-sociopath routine.

Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy

A lifeless, confused mess, peppered with laughs, yes, but illogically and crudely plotted and smothered in tonedeaf music cues.

Miami Herald Phoebe Flowers

More than adequate performances by Grant and Caan, who play off each other with a relative degree of aplomb.

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.

Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington

A limply derivative, disappointingly trivial and hokey fish-out-of-water crime comedy.

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.

San Francisco Examiner Wesley Morris

As insulting as taking the queen to the Olive Garden.

Dallas Observer Scott Kelton Jones

All set-up, no soul... Nothing here is that inspired, that clever.

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

After the bite and freshness of "Analyze This," Mickey Blue Eyes plays like an afterthought.

New York Daily News Jami Bernard

It strains to hard for laughs, with stale jokes about unweildy corpses.

Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt

Moviegoers tired of ethnic humor will find plenty to complain about.

TV Guide Ken Fox

What begins as an entertainingly contrived lark soon feels like a poorly plotted muddle.

Washington Post Desson Thomson

About as funny as digging your own grave in an unmarked part of New Jersey.

Salon.com Mary Elizabeth Williams

An uninspired, recycled Mafia gags caper.

San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle

A sour misfire.

Film.com Sean Means

Atrocious comedy.

The average user rating for this movie is 7.0 (out of 10) based on 5 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Jared B. gave it a0:
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.

Dixie normous gave it a 10:
I agree with chicken but. best comedy i've everseen! don't listen to the critics.

Chicken but gave it a 10:
Constantly hilarious with nonstop laughs.

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Mickey Blue Eyes
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