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Plunkett & Macleane
Gramercy Pictures
MPAA RATING: R for some strong violence, sexuality and language
Starring
Jonny Lee Miller,
Robert Carlyle,
Iain Robertson,
and
Liv Tyler
Plunkett (Carlyle) is a highwayman who's partner is killed by the evil Chance. He soon hooks up with disgraced gentleman soldier Captain MacCleane (Miller) to continue infiltrate wealthy society in order to rob the rich and fund his move to America. MacCleane falls in love with Lady Rebecca Gibson (Tyler), pushing the partners' daring and loyalty to the limit.
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Selwyn Roberts
Robert Wade
Neal Purvis
Charles McKeown
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Jake Scott
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: March 21, 2000
Video: March 21, 2000
Theatrical: October 1, 1999
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| RUNNING TIME: |
102 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
UK / Czech Republic |
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...
80
LA Weekly
Ella Taylor
Lewd, crude and occasionally too brutal to take, it's also gorgeous, heartfelt.
80
Newsweek
Louise Rosen
A highly entertaining movie in a genre that is often as stiff as the Lady Gibson's boning.
79
Mr. Showbiz
Kevin Maynard
A cross between a Hogarth painting and an MTV video, Plunkett & Macleane cuts quite a swath.
75
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
Scott makes it easy to overlook the conventionality beneath his sometimes overdone but almost always enjoyable combination of atmosphere and propulsiveness.
63
Baltimore Sun
Milton Kent
Too much fun to ignore.
63
Miami Herald
Curtis Morgan
A tad too raunchy for its own good.
60
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
It's vulgar, to be sure, but it's also brash and invigorating.
60
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
This buddy movie grows on you.
60
Dallas Observer
Andy Klein
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.
50
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
The whole thing seems to have been faked up for our amusement, like a circus freak show.
50
Philadelphia Inquirer
Desmond Ryan
Cheerful mishmash.
50
USA Today
Mike Clark
The plunk-ing of a rap/disco soundtrack onto a movie about debtors' prisons and 18th century British highwaymen?
50
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
Its noisily inappropriate pop-rock score overwhelms its meager subplots about British class conflict.
50
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
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.
50
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Paula Nechak
There's not an original idea rattling around in the empty-headed but gorgeous-to-behold period film.
50
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Watchable in a facile, trashy way. Unfortunately, most of the movie is mired in sludge, slime, mud, blood, and studiously dank cinematography.
40
Film.com
Gemma Files
It doesn't really hang together. And waaay too much style. Pity.
40
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
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.
38
Chicago Tribune
Barbara Shulgasser
Scott treats the material as if it were grist for a 30-second spot or a rowdy music video.
38
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
A noisy, amateurish mess that doesn't work on any level - an extended, clich-ridden MTV video set to anachronistic bad music.
38
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
A film overgrown with so many directorial flourishes that the heroes need machetes to hack their way to within view of the audience.
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?
30
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
No darn good.
25
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
An ugly, stupid movie it turned out to be. Incoherent, arbitrary, hyperactive and dark enough to make you fear you've gone blind.
25
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
A repellent, stupid film.
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.
5
TNT RoughCut
Daysun Chang
An empty void of tasteless action, formula plot, and dull dialogue set in a sadly under-utilized time period.
 The average user rating for this movie is 9.7 (out of 10) based on 7 User Votes
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