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Gunmen (1994)

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Critic Reviews: 4
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This film opens with a big fat close-up of a sweaty prisoner with a fly (on a string) crawling on his face. The prisoner quickly pops the fly in his mouth and spits it out. Then he leeringly laughs about it to the prisoner next door. Nope. This is not a bad undiscovered Sergio Leone spaghetti western. Rather it is the opening shot Deran Sarafin's Gunmen -- a brainless action film without an original thought in its head. Christopher Lambert is the fly-eater, a man named Dani Servigo, the brother

R, 1 hr. 30 min.

Action & Adventure

Stephen Sommers

Jun 22, 2001

Live Home Video

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All Critics (13) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (2) | Rotten (11) | DVD (1)

A routine, vacuous actioner that tries to mix thrills with humor.

March 26, 2009 Full Review Source: Variety | Comment
Variety
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[A] witless action movie.

May 20, 2003 Full Review Source: New York Times | Comment
New York Times
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Gunmen, at the very least, does moviegoers the favor of instantly revealing how stupid and cheesy it is, thus sparing us the elevated expectations of fun.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Washington Post | Comment
Washington Post
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Gunmen is a movie without plan, inspiration or originality - and to that list I would add coherence, except that I am not sure this movie would place much value on a plot that hangs together.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | Comment
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Though constrained by limited funds, it delivers the action goods with surprising style and boasts a better than average cast.

January 31, 2011 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | Comment
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Sarafian is an unpretentious, easy-to-please director, with an eye for quirky character detail and a dab hand at the macho stuff.

June 24, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comment

Truly awful, though I'll never get tired of Patrick Stewart a'slummin'.

December 9, 2005 Comment
Flipside Movie Emporium

Should be a whole lot of fun, but it really isn't -- Patrick Stewart using profanity is the highlight.

July 30, 2003 Comment
New Times

Standard actioner with a "what were they thinking?" acting ensemble.

July 26, 2002 Comment
eFilmCritic.com

At its best, Gunmen is a pale imitation of other, better films. At its worst, it's instantly forgettable.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | Comment
Austin Chronicle

A dull, overly familiar example of by-the-numbers moviemaking.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | Comment
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Audience Reviews for Gunmen

An absurdly fun and dementedly entertaining action-comedy. A side-splitting, massively double-crossing and wickedly enjoyable thrill-ride of a movie. Christopher Lambert and Mario Can Peebles are a wild, unpredictable and incredibly amusing team, they are having a blast with these characters. An unstoppably fun buddy

May 28, 2011
allan913

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A loose remake of 'The Good, The Bad and the Ugly'.

June 27, 2007
thefog1331
A.D. Villarreal

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