The Mod Squad (1999)
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Reviews Counted:50
Fresh:2
Rotten:48
Average Rating:3/10
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
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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. Full Review |
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1/4 |
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1.5/4 |
No one expects much from movie adaptations of TV shows but complete incoherence and boredom is a bit too much to bear. Full Review |
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An exercise in robotic filmmaking. Full Review |
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 3/4 |
Mindless, stylish fun. Full Review |
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D+ |
Who cares? Full Review |
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3/10 |
Otherwise dependable young actors like Danes, Ribisi and Epps seem lost in one-dimensional and unconvincing characters. Full Review |
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2/4 |
This is a pristine example of incoherent storyline mixed with poor editing and limp writing. Full Review |
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A flawed fraud, a youth movie so disjointed, witless and condescending that it's painful to watch. Full Review |
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1.5/5 |
Writer Scott Silver also directed the film, but obviously had no idea how to convey to his actors any sense of enthusiasm or energy. Full Review |
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1/5 |
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. Full Review |
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1/4 |
The first big-screen resurrection aimed squarely at a generation that probably never heard of, much less watched, the original TV show. Full Review |
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1/5 |
Yeah, let's make a movie for the kids ... based on a TV show they've never even heard of.
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2/4 |
Plays like a 90-minute version of the old television show. That's not necessarily bad. Full Review |
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Nearly every scene is a guaranteed hoot-fest. Full Review |
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2.5/5 |
The film simply doesn't deliver anything sufficiently remarkable to distinguish itself from sturdier competition. Full Review |
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Add another to the scrap heap of hip '60s and '70s TV shows reduced to cinematic rubble by the inspiration-starved minds in Hollywood. Full Review |
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I can scarcely remember a single film which was less enjoyable to watch than The Mod Squad. Full Review |
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3.5/5 |
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. Full Review |
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5/10 |
I couldn't count The Mod Squad's plot holes with a calculator. Full Review |
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