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Movie Review: 'Safe Men' (1998)

Reviewed by | Aug 21, 1998
EW's GRADE
C

Details Rated: R; Length: 88 Minutes; With: Sam Rockwell and Steve Zahn; Distributor: October Films

In this genially frowsy safecracking farce, Sam Rockwell and Steve Zahn, talented space-cadet actors who are in dire need of a straight man, play Sam and Eddie, a pair of no-talent lounge singers who are mistaken for master thieves. Writer-director John Hamburg appears to be trying for a Coen brothers comedy without the narrative aggression or knowing pyrotechnical pizzazz. All that's left, really, is the flakiness. C

Originally posted Aug 21, 1998 Published in issue #446-447 Aug 21, 1998 Order article reprints
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