Lucky Break (2001)
Average Rating: 5.6/10
Reviews Counted: 44
Fresh: 21 | Rotten: 23
Lucky Break fails to do anything new with The Full Monty formula.
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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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
Cast
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James Nesbitt
Jimmy -
Olivia Williams
Annabel -
Timothy Spall
Cliff -
Bill Nighy
Roger -
Lennie James
Rudy -
Ron Cook
Perry -
Frank Harper
John Toombes -
Raymond Waring
Darren -
Christopher Plummer
Graham Mortimer -
Julian Barratt
Paul -
Peter Wight
Officer George Barratt -
Celia Imrie
Amy
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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.
Top CriticA prison comedy that never really busts out of its comfy little cell.
It's what the Brits themselves might call fair to middling.
No worse a film than Breaking Out, and Breaking Out was utterly charming.
A pleasing but routine British comedy set in an English prison.
Well, this is definitely a disappointment.
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.
Overall, it's good, not great. This is a pleasant enough but small English romantic comedy.
The end result is like cold porridge with only the odd enjoyably chewy lump.
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