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Mean Machine [2001]
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brilliant
Review date: 2008-10-11 Rating: 10 out of 10
this film is absolutely brilliant, its been out for 5 years or so and i still find it as good as the first time i watched it, vinnie jones playes a good part in this film, but i think everyones favorite charecter would be MONK (jason statham)
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Good fun, great laughs!
Review date: 2008-09-21 Rating: 10 out of 10
If by now you havent already seen this film... what have you been doing? Ok it wasnt a hollywood blockbuster but its a great film none the less.
Vinnie jones plays a disgraced foot baller sent down for drunken assualt to a crooked prison where hes asked to coach the guards football team for the delightfully nasty warden.
The film provides the laughs and sadness of any good hearted underdog film it even has parts that will make you grimice with disgust!it doesnt take alot to watch this the story lines basic but your given a film that will make you laugh and feel joy as better than the rest.
This isnt just a football match its a bloody good time!
Mega fun
Review date: 2008-08-05 Rating: 8 out of 10
Any movie about football that can win over a footbla hater is bound to be good, and take my word, this is a short, fun, no-brainer, infintely rewatchable and hugely enjoyable.
In addition to Vinnie Jones and Jason Statham , about 76% of Guy Ritchie's cache of bit-parters show up as well. As usual, Statham steals the show, though Jones is awesome in it as are all the other sterotypes. If it weren't for Danny Dyer this would have been a five-star movie.
Bring on the cliches!
Review date: 2007-09-26 Rating: 6 out of 10
Remakes tend to be a way of getting a film using little creativity as it's all been figured out before. However - this is different. The fact that this is a British film means that the cultural references and the feel of it are totally and refreshingly different.
BUT - I've had to remove a star for this film purely due to the fact that it is crammed with every prison film cliché going.
The screws are racist and are hell-bent on dealing out brutal thrashings to cons on a whim.
The Governor is as bent as a bottle of crisps and uses his corruption to get what he wants, he threatens his staff with losing their jobs, and he threatens to stitch up cons.
There is a mafia-boss style con who 'runs the nick'.
There is even a ball-against-the-wall scene a-la The Great Escape.
Vinnie Jones was adequate as Danny Meehan, and the other cast are all great. Particularly the hyper salivating canteen guy, and Ralph Brown as Burton.
Burton is the Senior Prison officer and is not happy at the corruption in the prison. I found him to be my favourite character in the film as he had more depth than the others - plus Brown is one of my all time favourite actors.
You get the feeling that this film was made to surf the crest of the Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels wave. It's not a bad film, it's just that everything you expect to happen, happens. There are some very funny moments, and this would be a fantastic film for a lads night in - you've got prisons, violence, and football.
Maybe it's because I'm not a football fan, and my dad was a prison officer that I just don't get excited by the 'all police/prison officers are inherently evil' plot of a lot of films.
Bloody Funny!
Review date: 2006-11-07 Rating: 10 out of 10
Having watched the old Burt Reynolds movie of the same name, I watched this one with some trepidation...
I need'nt have worried - This film is very very funny, and Vinnie Jones is absolutely brill as the central character Danny 'Mean Machine' Meehan.
Alongside Vinnie, are some solid supporting actors too... the late David Hemmings is particularly good as the corrupt & sleazy Prison Governer of the Prison that Vinnie is sent to. Jason Statham is excellent as the psychotic 'Monk' along with Danny Dyer (of Human Traffic fame) as the endearing 'Billy the Limpet'
This film would never win any oscars - which in my opinion is a great shame - but it is a film that you can watch over and over again, and always laugh yer head off! The humour at times is coarse, and not too PC at times either, not that I was ever PC anyway!
Anyway, if you want to take my advice, get yerself a copy of this film... You won't regret it.
Product Details/Specifications
Actor(s):
Vinnie Jones
Ralph Brown
David Hemmings
Vas Blackwood
David Kelly
Creators:
Vinnie Jones (Primary Contributor)
David Kelly (Primary Contributor)
Adam Bohling (Producer)
Albert S. Ruddy (Producer)
Cynthia Pett-Dante (Producer)
Andrew Day (Writer)
Charlie Fletcher (Writer)
Chris Baker (Writer)
Tracy Keenan Wynn (Writer)
Director(s):
Recording label: Paramount Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Paramount Home Entertainment
EAN: 5014437813930
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 1
Format: Anamorphic, Dubbed, PAL, Widescreen,
Release date: 2002-11-18
Number of discs: 1
Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
Audience rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Region code: 2
Running time: 95 minutes
Theatrical release date: 2002-09-19
Language: English (Original Language)
Language: English (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired)
Language: Arabic (Subtitled)
Language: Bulgarian (Subtitled)
Language: Czech (Subtitled)
Language: Danish (Subtitled)
Language: Dutch (Subtitled)
Language: English (Subtitled)
Language: Finnish (Subtitled)
Language: Hungarian (Subtitled)
Language: Icelandic (Subtitled)
Language: Italian (Subtitled)
Language: Norwegian (Subtitled)
Language: Polish (Subtitled)
Language: Romanian (Subtitled)
Language: Swedish (Subtitled)
Language: Turkish (Subtitled)
Language: Italian (Dubbed)