Overall, Cletis Tout is a winning comedy that excites the imagination and tickles the funny bone.
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08/16/02
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Who is Cletis Tout? (2002)
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Reviews Counted:55
Fresh:13
Rotten:42
Average Rating:4.3/10
Consensus: Cliched and endlessly self-referential, Who Is Cletis Tout? doesn't add anything original to the crime genre.
Theatrical Release:Jul 26, 2002 Limited
Box Office: $64,867
Synopsis: While in prison, Trevor Finch (Christian Slater), an ex-convict specializing in identification falsification, meets a magician and jewel thief, Micah (Richard Dreyfuss). Together, they bust out and... [More]
Starring: Christian Slater, Richard Dreyfuss, Tim Allen, Portia De Rossi
Director: Chris Ver Wiel
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08/09/02
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10/01/03
A smug and convoluted action-comedy that doesn't allow an earnest moment to pass without reminding audiences that it's only a movie.
07/30/02
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05/13/03
The result, however well-intentioned, is ironically just the sort of disposable, kitchen-sink homage that illustrates why the whole is so often less than the sum of its parts in today's Hollywood.
08/02/02
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08/03/02
There's skimpiness to the whole movie that undercuts its good effort at a modern-minded twist on high-style nostalgia.
07/28/02
There was a lot I liked in Cletis Tout ... But it seemed a shame that the writer and director, Chris Ver Wiel, took a perfectly sound story idea and complicated it into an exercise in style.
07/26/02
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09/03/02
Not only is this film completely useless, it's also about five years too late.
07/26/02
Topkapi this is not.
07/08/02
A woefully self-conscious, self-referential post-modern tale in a long line of Quentin Tarantino knockoffs that makes a strong case against letting film buffs write and direct movies.
08/01/02
Top CriticA fragile framework upon which to hang broad, mildly fleshed-out characters that seem to have been conjured up only 10 minutes prior to filming.
07/24/02
The movie attempts to mine laughs from a genre -- the gangster/crime comedy -- that wore out its welcome with audiences several years ago, and its cutesy reliance on movie-specific cliches isn't exactly endearing.
08/09/02
While you're watching this creamed-crime caper -- as unnecessarily murky as it is unoriginal -- you may find yourself wondering What is Cletis Tout? When it's finally over, the only question left is Why is Cletis Tout?
08/02/02
Top CriticCletis is playful but highly studied and dependent for its success on a patient viewer.
08/02/02
Top CriticI could just feel the screenwriter at every moment 'Tap, tap, tap, tap, tapping away' on this screenplay.
07/31/02
Top CriticAwful.
07/26/02
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