The Mod Squad

Name: The Mod Squad
Genre: Action, Thriller
Released: March 26, 1999
Duration: 92 min
Rating: 16
Cast: Claire Danes, Giovanni Ribisi, Omar Epps

1999

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | Release Date: March 26, 1999 | R

Starring: Claire Danes, Giovanni Ribisi, Omar Epps

Summary: A big screen version of the trend-setting 1960's television series, updating the premise for the '90s. A trio of juvenile delinquents becomes undercover cops to infiltrate a drug ring in the ultra-hip L.A. club scene. (MGM)

Director: Scott Silver

Genre(s): Action, Thriller

Rating: R

Runtime: 92 min

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Kevin Thomas

A great-looking picture that zips along with grace, light on its feet but possessed of just enough gravity to allow us to take its people rather than its old TV series premise seriously. Read full review

James Berardinelli

This is the kind of movie that isn't even worth renting when it comes out on video because, with the possible exception of Michael Lerner and Omar Epps dancing to show tunes, you've seen it all before. Read full review

Owen Gleiberman

Presents undercover law enforcement less as a profession than as an accessory, an excuse to pout and glower chicly, to stand around in nightclubs acting like a sullen version of the Last American Rebel. Read full review

Mark Caro

You watch the movie in a dumbfounded stupor. Why on earth was it made? [26 March 1999, Friday, p.A]

Mary Elizabeth Williams

One of the most mindless, shamelessly lazy films. Read full review

Tom Meek

Add another one to the scrap heap of trendy, nostalgic, 60's and 70's TV shows reduced to cinematic rubble by the inspiration starved minds in Hollywood. Read full review

Liam Lacey

A flawed fraud, a youth movie so disjointed, witless and condescending that it's painful to watch. Read full review

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FreeJeff

May 21, 2011

The three leads try to bring some life to this turkey, but the script is DOA. Even the jokes about it being a cliche fall flat. Not even worth it for irony. Skip it

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