The Mod Squad (1999)
Average Rating: 3/10
Reviews Counted: 52
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 50
A sodden, overly stylized mess that's even less compelling than a TV episode.
Average Rating: 3.4/10
Critic Reviews: 14
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 13
A sodden, overly stylized mess that's even less compelling than a TV episode.
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Police Capt. Adam Greer (Dennis Farina) needs some new cops who can go where other cops can't. Greer finds three young people on their way to jail: Lincoln Hayes (Omar Epps), the black one, is up for arson; Pete Cochrane (Giovanni Ribisi), the white one, is up for robbery; and Julie Barnes (Claire Danes), the blonde one, is up for assault. The three are given a choice: go to jail, or become a special undercover unit that will infiltrate L.A.'s underbelly and bring down the drug dealers and
Mar 26, 1999 Wide
Aug 24, 1999
MGM
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Cast
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Claire Danes
Julie Barnes -
Giovanni Ribisi
Pete Cochrane -
Omar Epps
Linc Hayes -
Dennis Farina
Capt. Adam Greer -
Josh Brolin
Billy Waites -
Steve Harris
Detective Briggs -
Richard Jenkins
Detective Mothershed -
Larry Brandenburg
Eckford -
Lionel Mark Smith
Lanier -
Sam McMurray
Tricky -
Michael O'Neill
Greene -
Stephen Kay
Bald Dude -
Bodhi Elfman
Gilbert (Skinny Freak) -
Michael Lerner
Howard
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All Critics (52) | Top Critics (14) | Fresh (2) | Rotten (50) | DVD (4)
This latest bigscreen retrofitting of a vintage TV series (1968-73) feels like the most shameless effort yet in the renewed exploitation of the youth market.
An exercise in robotic filmmaking.
Top CriticA flawed fraud, a youth movie so disjointed, witless and condescending that it's painful to watch.
Plays like a 90-minute version of the old television show. That's not necessarily bad.
A great-looking picture that zips along with grace, light on its feet but possessed of just enough gravity to allow us to take its people rather than its old TV series premise seriously.
The Mod Squad has an intriguing cast, a director who knows how to use his camera and a lot of sly humor. Shame about the story.
No one expects much from movie adaptations of TV shows but complete incoherence and boredom is a bit too much to bear.
Mindless, stylish fun.
Who cares?
Otherwise dependable young actors like Danes, Ribisi and Epps seem lost in one-dimensional and unconvincing characters.
This is a pristine example of incoherent storyline mixed with poor editing and limp writing.
Writer Scott Silver also directed the film, but obviously had no idea how to convey to his actors any sense of enthusiasm or energy.
Add another one to the scrap heap of trendy, nostalgic, 60's and 70's TV shows reduced to cinematic rubble by the inspiration starved minds in Hollywood.
The first big-screen resurrection aimed squarely at a generation that probably never heard of, much less watched, the original TV show.
Yeah, let's make a movie for the kids ... based on a TV show they've never even heard of.
Nearly every scene is a guaranteed hoot-fest.
The film simply doesn't deliver anything sufficiently remarkable to distinguish itself from sturdier competition.
Add another to the scrap heap of hip '60s and '70s TV shows reduced to cinematic rubble by the inspiration-starved minds in Hollywood.
I can scarcely remember a single film which was less enjoyable to watch than The Mod Squad.
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