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3 Strikes

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3 Strikes (2000)

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Reviews Counted: 28

Fresh: 0

Rotten:28

Average Rating: 2.3/10

Consensus: 3 Strikes lacks direction and its low-brow humor isn't even that funny.

Runtime: 82 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: This action-packed comedy follows a two time criminal (Hooks) who is already in trouble with the law. Threatened with serving a life sentence if he's convicted a third time, he commits to going straight and narrow. It isn't long before... This action-packed comedy follows a two time criminal (Hooks) who is already in trouble with the law. Threatened with serving a life sentence if he's convicted a third time, he commits to going straight and narrow. It isn't long before trouble finds him once again when an acquaintance of his shoots at a police officer. Mistaken for his accomplice, he must fight for survival while thinking of a way to prove his innocence. Music producer -- and co-writer of the sleeper hit Friday -- Pooh's debut as a director is fast, fresh, and filled with laughs. [More]

Starring: Brian Hooks, N'Bushe Wright, Faizon Love, David Alan Grier

Starring: Brian Hooks, N'Bushe Wright, Faizon Love, David Alan Grier, E-40, DJ Pooh, Vincent Schiavelli

Director: DJ Pooh

Director: DJ Pooh
Screenwriter: DJ Pooh
Producer: Marcus Morton

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Release:

Aug 29, 2000

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DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Keep Case
  • Letterboxed - 1.85
  • Pan & Scan - 1.33

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
  • Dolby Digital 5.1 - Spanish

Additional Release Material:

  • Music Videos (3)
  • Trailer - 1. Original Theatrical

Reviews for 3 Strikes

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It would be easier to forgive some of the film's excesses, however, if it were actually funny.

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08/14/05
Emanuel Levy
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07/21/05
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Embarrassingly slipshod comedy tripe.

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04/03/05
Scott Weinberg
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Has far more than three strikes against it.

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02/03/05
Michael Dequina
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06/19/02
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02/27/01
Joe Baltake
Sacramento Bee
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Relies much too heavily on multiple repetitions of gags that aren’t especially funny the first time around.

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02/14/01
Joe Leydon
Variety
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To give you an idea of the level of comedy here, Fargas has fewer lines than farts, playing a flatulent uncle.

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01/01/00
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A second-string effort.

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01/01/00
A.O. Scott
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Dumb and sloppy.

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Andrew O'Hehir
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Designed for a lowest-common-denominator audience segment.

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Chris Vognar
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Unoriginal and insulting, 3 Strikes goes down without scoring a single chuckle.

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01/01/00
Dave Larsen
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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The simplistic formula of 3 Strikes relies on sexual humor, flatulence and references to not-so-current events, with the bombardment of mediocre jokes soon growing tiresome and repetitive.

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Dwayne E. Leslie
Boxoffice Magazine
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A sloppy hash of a movie, poorly directed and plotted in a way that looks as if it were improvised on the spot.

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01/01/00
Edward Guthmann
San Francisco Chronicle
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3 Strikes is unlikely to break new ground as yet another attempt by rap musicians and producers to reach white Multiplex audiences with a low-budget comedy.

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01/01/00
Elena Razlogova
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Sophomoric and unfunny.

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01/01/00
Eric Harrison
Los Angeles Times
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The problem with the film is of course the weak script. Slapstick requires impeccable timing, and this doesn't have it.

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01/01/00
Eric Lurio
Greenwich Village Gazette
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There's absolutely no momentum -- comedic or otherwise -- to propel the film or hold one's interest in what transpires.

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01/01/00
Jim Judy
Screen It!
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Pooh wastes a wonderful cast.

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01/01/00
John Hartl
Seattle Times
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