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The Mighty Quinn (1989)

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Average Rating: 6.4/10
Reviews Counted: 17
Fresh: 14 | Rotten: 3

A deft hybrid of laughs, espionage, and music, The Mighty Quinn is a smart, pleasant entertainment that offers an early example of Denzel Washington's onscreen magnetism.

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A deft hybrid of laughs, espionage, and music, The Mighty Quinn is a smart, pleasant entertainment that offers an early example of Denzel Washington's onscreen magnetism.

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Xavier Quinn (Denzel Washington) is police chief of a tiny Caribbean island. Quinn's efforts to straddle the fence between the local blacks and the moneyed whites have lost him the respect of both groups. When a murder is committed, Quinn suspects that the killer is Maubee (Robert Townsend), a notoriously elusive criminal who has become a folk hero to the locals. Despite various political pressures -- and the fact that he and Maubee were childhood friends-Quinn vows to solve the murder, and, if

Feb 6, 2001

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

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All Critics (17) | Top Critics (3) | Fresh (14) | Rotten (3) | DVD (1)

[Washington] gives the kind of smooth, funny, laid-back performance that could help make him the first black matinee idol since Sidney Poitier.

May 20, 2003 Full Review Source: New York Times | Comment
New York Times
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With Fancher's dialogue and Washington's comedic timing, The Mighty Quinn is more fun than a cabana full of bananas.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Washington Post | Comment
Washington Post
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The Mighty Quinn is a spy thriller, a buddy movie, a musical, a comedy and a picture that is wise about human nature. And yet with all of those qualities, it never seems to strain.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | Comment
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Pleasing comical murder mystery that takes place on a small Caribbean island.

May 9, 2009 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | Comment
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

An award-worthy performance by Washington

October 26, 2008 Comment
Tsunami Magazine

The colourful locale -- it was shot on the northeastern coast of Jamaica -- spices up the formulaic screenplay, which contains sentimental twaddle about identifying with one's culture.

May 24, 2003 Full Review Source: Film4 | Comment

A terrific mystery with a Caribbean beat; Denzel Washington needs to do more movies like this.

January 14, 2003 Comment
Flipside Movie Emporium

Engrossing mystery in a unique setting

October 10, 2002 Comment
Capital Times (Madison, WI)

The film has the unmistakable (or maybe only semi-mistakable) feel of a television pilot.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: rec.arts.movies.reviews | Comment
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Audience Reviews for The Mighty Quinn

The smooth and charming Denzel Washington plays a Caribbean cop investigating a murder that his childhood friend Maubee (Robert Townsend) may be implicated in. Townsend plays the role of a carefree individual who does just what he pleases and mostly the wrong side of the law and is constantly laughing at strait laced

April 2, 2011
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Very entertaining, good performances by Townsend and Washington. Good ending.

December 31, 2009
Chosen718

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