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Limited Release: Feb 22, 2002; Rated: R; Length: 99 Minutes; Genre: Sports; With: Vinnie Jones and Jason Statham
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Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW
This British remake of the 1974 Burt Reynolds prison-football rouser The Longest Yard is suffused with the British cult of soccer as the ultimate in raw gladiatorial clash. After too many Full Montys, though, the whole notion of a bunch of ragged, loudmouthed ruffians who put aside their differences to accomplish a goal has come to look like a coy ritual of emasculation. Vinnie Jones, in the Reynolds role, has a thuggish command -- he's like Clive Owen reborn as a meanly desiccated hulk.
Posted Mar 15, 2002
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