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Lucky Break (2001)

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48

Average Rating: 5.6/10
Reviews Counted: 44
Fresh: 21 | Rotten: 23

Lucky Break fails to do anything new with The Full Monty formula.

47

Average Rating: 5.6/10
Critic Reviews: 17
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 9

Lucky Break fails to do anything new with The Full Monty formula.

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50

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Average Rating: 3.1/5
User Ratings: 1,385

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Movie Info

The first feature by director Peter Cattaneo since his award-winning British smash hit The Full Monty, Lucky Break is another comedy in the same mold, this time taking place in prison. Small-time crooks Jimmy (James Nesbitt) and Rudy (Lennie James), after years of no success, decide to pull a bank job, where they are both captured and incarcerated. Jimmy is then transferred to Long Rudford, run by the steely security chief Perry (Ron Cook). Jimmy again runs into Rudy (whom he left to take the

PG-13,

Comedy

Ronan Bennett

Oct 22, 2002

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All Critics (57) | Top Critics (22) | Fresh (22) | Rotten (23) | DVD (4)

The formulaic script, stocked with not one truly menacing inmate, echoes far too many sentimental post-Full Monty imports.

July 20, 2002 Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune
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A prison comedy that never really busts out of its comfy little cell.

May 31, 2002 Full Review Source: Detroit Free Press
Detroit Free Press
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It's what the Brits themselves might call fair to middling.

May 13, 2002
Washington Post
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No worse a film than Breaking Out, and Breaking Out was utterly charming.

April 24, 2002 Full Review Source: Washington Post
Washington Post
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A pleasing but routine British comedy set in an English prison.

April 24, 2002 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Chronicle
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Well, this is definitely a disappointment.

November 7, 2003
Greenwich Village Gazette

If you adored The Full Monty so resoundingly that you're dying to see the same old thing in a tired old setting, then this should keep you reasonably entertained.

December 28, 2002 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide
Apollo Guide

Overall, it's good, not great. This is a pleasant enough but small English romantic comedy.

December 8, 2002 Full Review Source: Film Threat
Film Threat

The end result is like cold porridge with only the odd enjoyably chewy lump.

October 21, 2002 Full Review Source: L.A. Weekly
L.A. Weekly

Audience Reviews for Lucky Break

What an entertaining find this was! Sure at times the plot is predictable and some sub plots are not fully fleshed out, perhaps they should've been axed all together...but on the whole Nesbitt and Williams carry the movie and it is a comedy with enough drama that invites you to see what happens. A fun flick!
July 17, 2008
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