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Reviews Counted:28
Fresh:4
Rotten:24
Average Rating:4.3/10
Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis: Two Georgia convicts, an African-American named Piper, and a White guy named Dodge, are handcuffed together while in prison. During a riot, the two defiant ones escape -- still shackled together.... [More]
Starring: Laurence Fishburne, Stephen Baldwin, Will Patton, Robert John Burke
Director: Kevin Hooks
On the plus side, at least for this type of effort, there is a new type of Chinese torture, tampon bandages, numerous film trivia allusions, bullets through peepholes, lots of women as strippers (Oh, not again!!), and a fine soundtrack produced by wunderk
Lots of physical energy, but little else.
The makers of this sluggish, by-the-numbers action pic couldn't even be bothered to exploit the obvious angles.
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Grotesquely violent, ridiculously bloody and tries to get by on a silly, wink-at-the-camera attitude.
Drivel.
While not an altogether unsatisfying experience, it leaves the viewer yearning to see the originals instead.
Most of non-action scenes are dead serious, and in those moments Fled becomes unbearably cliched and tedious.
Scripter Preston A. Whitmore II and helmer Kevin Hooks are obviously well-versed in film lore, for they have concocted a hodgepodge that recycles elements from several white-black team movies.
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Top CriticOn the whole, Baldwin seems pretty dim for a renowned cyber-anarchist. Also, he simply isn't in the same class of actor as Tony Curtis. Or Laurence Fishburne, who swaggers through this mess with his usual suave manliness.
Top CriticThere's nothing particularly deep or challenging about this movie.
Top CriticThe plot makes a couple of jumps that don't seem to make sense except to advance to yet another action scene. If only those scenes were worth the wait.
Even Patton, excellent as the smooth Atlanta cop on the convict's trail, can't save this mediocre descent into kiss-kiss-bang-bang clichés and one-note gags.
Big dumb fun, for sure, but not big and clever.
Despite all efforts by its notable cast, the film suffers from an incohesive plot that tries to provide drama, action and comedy only to lose focus and fail to accomplish any of its aims.
It's all wise-cracking heroes with 50-cent catch-phrases chased into shoot-outs with scenery-chewing henchmen. In other words, nothing you haven't seen a dozen times before.
Fled is a movie without a brain in its head, and it borrows cheerfully from lots of other movies, but at least it has the integrity to acknowledge its sources.
Top CriticBarrel-bottom buddy-flick refuse.
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