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03/10/07
The Mod Squad (1999)
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Reviews Counted: 48
Fresh: 2
Rotten:46
Average Rating: 3.1/10
Consensus: A sodden, overly stylized mess that’s even less compelling than a TV episode.
Runtime: 2 hrs
Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis: A trio of juvenile delinquents are recruited by a cop to help infiltrate an underground drugs ring. When, he is unexpectedly killed, the group go all out to solve his murder and bust the drug... [More]
Starring: Giovanni Ribisi, Claire Danes, Omar Epps, Dennis Farina
Director: Scott Silver
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Reviews for The Mod Squad
Top CriticNo one expects much from movie adaptations of TV shows but complete incoherence and boredom is a bit too much to bear.
01/05/07
An exercise in robotic filmmaking.
01/05/07
Top CriticMindless, stylish fun.
05/26/06
Who cares?
04/09/05
Otherwise dependable young actors like Danes, Ribisi and Epps seem lost in one-dimensional and unconvincing characters.
10/19/04
This is a pristine example of incoherent storyline mixed with poor editing and limp writing.
05/20/03
A flawed fraud, a youth movie so disjointed, witless and condescending that it's painful to watch.
04/25/03
Top CriticWriter Scott Silver also directed the film, but obviously had no idea how to convey to his actors any sense of enthusiasm or energy.
02/08/03
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.
12/08/02
The first big-screen resurrection aimed squarely at a generation that probably never heard of, much less watched, the original TV show.
10/17/02
Yeah, let's make a movie for the kids ... based on a TV show they've never even heard of.
07/26/02
Plays like a 90-minute version of the old television show. That's not necessarily bad.
06/18/02
Top CriticNearly every scene is a guaranteed hoot-fest.
06/18/02
The film simply doesn't deliver anything sufficiently remarkable to distinguish itself from sturdier competition.
06/05/02
I can scarcely remember a single film which was less enjoyable to watch than The Mod Squad.
03/12/01
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.
02/14/01
Top CriticI couldn't count The Mod Squad's plot holes with a calculator.
01/01/00
The lack of plot and lack of action are fatal flaws.
01/01/00
You want everyone to be cool or at least cheesy-cool, but really, they end up looking waify and overwhelmed, not so much rebellious as fatigued.
01/01/00
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