Grosse Pointe Blank Reviews

Despite some early indications from the two Cusacks and Arkin that it's going to be funny, it winds up an unholy mess that becomes steadily more incoherent -- morally, dramatically, and conceptually.

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Yet another disappointment! Grosse Pointe Blank is full of possibilities (a great hook, a sharp cast, and a wry cynicism that is shamefully lacking from film these days) but comes up short on all sides.0

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

The story-telling is sloppy. The post-production got a little untidy too, with so many 1980s hit tunes thrown on the soundtrack that the music changes almost as often as the camera angle.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Silly black comedy fires a blank.

Full Review | Original Score: C

Cusack's talents are delicate and appealing, but not propulsive enough to lead the movie to triumph.

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A soggy, all-over-the- place mess.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4

As a whole, this film only succeeds in making extraordinary people and situations to look banal.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10

If you can ignore the tiresome romance and the incessant playing of largely inane music on the soundtrack, Grosse Point Blank has much to recommend it.

| Original Score: 2.5/4

Don't waste precious time watching this. You deserve better.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

It's a sad day when an actor who's totally, beautifully in touch with his dark side finds himself stuck in a movie that's scared of its own shadow.

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The coy, oh-so-hip tone of the title persists through the whole strained contrivance.

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Its dishonesty makes the fun wear off real fast.

Full Review | Original Score: 70/100

This movie has the jaunty good cheer of another great movie about hit men, Prizzi's Honor. And that is high praise indeed.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

It's the best date film I've seen in a long time: at least 12 people die.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

The film takes the form but not the feel of a comic thriller. It's quirkier than that.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

The film offers sufficient small pleasures to make it worth enduring the less effective elements. As a result, while Grosse Pointe Blank fails to deliver a fullisade, at least the chamber's not empty, either.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Quirky mix of laughs, romance, strong violence.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Uneven, hard to believe, occasionally funny, but has too much style and not enough substance.

Full Review | Original Score: low +1 out of -4..+4

One of 1997's best films, and certainly the funniest and freshest.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

An incredibly hip look at growing up.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

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