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- 2002
- R
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 26 m
- 2002
- R
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 26 m
Summary Five hapless inner-city low-lifes unsuccessfully attempt to burgle a pawnbroker's safe, but wind up gaining more than they lose. (Warner Bros.)
Directed By: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
Written By: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
- 2002
- R
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 26 m
- 2002
- R
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 26 m
Welcome to Collinwood
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Summary Five hapless inner-city low-lifes unsuccessfully attempt to burgle a pawnbroker's safe, but wind up gaining more than they lose. (Warner Bros.)
Directed By: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
Written By: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
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Metascore
Generally favorable
Based on 22 Critic Reviews
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64% Positive
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36% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally favorable
Based on 22 Critic Reviews
61
64% Positive
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
36% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
0% Negative
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It's excessively quirky and a little underconfident in its delivery, but otherwise this is the best "old neighborhood" project since Christopher Walken kinda romanced Cyndi Lauper in "The Opportunists."
The farce is energetically written, breezily acted, and never quite as dumb as the lunkheads it's about.
Populated by a great ensemble cast and oozing a grubby sort of charm.
Funny and not-funny, slapstick and slapdash, Welcome to Collinwood is a seriously uneven caper comedy in which a bunch of really fine character actors get to act really, really silly.
With a dream cast that also includes Patricia Clarkson and, in a cameo, a tattooed George Clooney, fullness of narrative may not have struck the filmmakers as key, and their film feels slight, as if it were an extended short, albeit one made by the smartest kids in class.
Excitement trumps incompetence as one colorful loser recruits another. Pretty soon, the screen is filled with hip actors playing clueless lowlifes, pretending they're in a Bizarro World production of ''Ocean's Eleven.''
A bigger problem is that since the movie is a straight remake that reprises many of the original's scenes, we have those scenes playing in our heads, and the Russos' execution just isn't up to Monicelli's. It's painful to see gags that worked so beautifully fall flat, or wither and die because of indifferent timing.
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Production Company
Gaylord Films,
H5B5 Media AG,
Pandora Cinema,
Section Eight,
Warner Bros.
Release Date Oct 4, 2002
Duration 1 h 26 m
Rating R
Tagline Five guys. One safe. No brains.
Awards
Golden Trailer Awards
• 1 Nomination
Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
