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Who is Cletis Tout? (2002)
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Reviews Counted:19
Fresh:5
Rotten:14
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
Top CriticIt's just a little too self-satisfied.
08/02/02
Top CriticMerely a diversion, but clever enough to divert.
08/02/02
Top CriticCletis is playful but highly studied and dependent for its success on a patient viewer.
08/02/02
Top CriticWhile 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 CriticThe 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
Top CriticA 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 CriticI could just feel the screenwriter at every moment 'Tap, tap, tap, tap, tapping away' on this screenplay.
07/31/02
Top CriticA gem of a romantic crime comedy that turns out to be clever, amusing and unpredictable.
07/27/02
Top CriticWho Is Cletis Tout? won't change anybody's life, but it's a respectable B- movie -- airy, inconsequential and a little too cute at times, but fairly entertaining all the same.
07/26/02
Top CriticCharming, if overly complicated...
07/26/02
Top Critic[The] script is in dire need of a few more rewrites.
07/26/02
Top CriticAwful.
07/26/02
Top CriticThere 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
Top CriticThis mistaken-identity picture is so film-culture referential that the final product is a ghost.
07/25/02
Top CriticThe skills of a calculus major at M.I.T. are required to balance all the formulaic equations in the long-winded heist comedy Who Is Cletis Tout?
07/25/02
Top CriticThis charmless nonsense ensues amid clanging film references that make Jay and Silent Bob's Excellent Adventure seem understated.
07/23/02
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