Average Rating: 2.3/10
Reviews Counted: 29
Fresh: 0 | Rotten: 29
3 Strikes lacks direction and its low-brow humor isn't even that funny.
Average Rating: 2.4/10
Critic Reviews: 11
Fresh: 0 | Rotten: 11
3 Strikes lacks direction and its low-brow humor isn't even that funny.
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Noted hip-hop producer DJ Pooh, who co-wrote the urban comedy Friday, makes his directorial debut with this comedy-drama. A young African-American man is enjoying his freedom after his second stretch in prison. Under the "three strikes and you're out" law, another brush with the police could mean life behind bars, so he's determined to stay out of trouble. He quickly learns, however, that trouble has a way of finding him, no matter where he goes. DJ Pooh also stars in 3 Strikes, alongside
Mar 1, 2000 Wide
Jun 19, 2001
MGM Home Entertainment
All Critics (29) | Top Critics (11) | Fresh (0) | Rotten (29) | DVD (3)
Relies much too heavily on multiple repetitions of gags that aren't especially funny the first time around.
A second-string effort.
Unoriginal and insulting, 3 Strikes goes down without scoring a single chuckle.
Designed for a lowest-common-denominator audience segment.
A giddy farce with sporadic laughs and no staying power.
Pooh's 3 Strikes aims a good deal higher in concept than, say, your average booty movie - but the crude, witless jokes are on exactly that level.
It would be easier to forgive some of the film's excesses, however, if it were actually funny.
Embarrassingly slipshod comedy tripe.
Has far more than three strikes against it.
This one used up all three of 'em in the first few minutes.
Without much of a story, convincing performances, or visual style to spark your juices, the mind tends to wander.
A laughless comedy.
Pooh wastes a wonderful cast.
3 Strikes is depressing and grim, but not in any useful or interesting way.
There's absolutely no momentum -- comedic or otherwise -- to propel the film or hold one's interest in what transpires.
It's disposable, forgettable and aimed at an audience that doesn't care.
The problem with the film is of course the weak script. Slapstick requires impeccable timing, and this doesn't have it.
This is a truly dismal cinematic experience!
Hilarious!
December 25, 2007Super Reviewer
only a few funny parts wit faizon love, and david alan grier. if they wasn't in the movie it would be some ISssSssSSh
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