There's skimpiness to the whole movie that undercuts its good effort at a modern-minded twist on high-style nostalgia.
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07/28/02
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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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Reviews for Who is Cletis Tout?
Ver Wiel has concocted one of the most elaborately twisted, diverting caper films in years.
07/27/02
A gem of a romantic crime comedy that turns out to be clever, amusing and unpredictable.
07/27/02
Top CriticAs self-aware movies go, Who is Cletis Tout? is clever enough, though thin writing proves its undoing.
07/27/02
Not only is this film completely useless, it's also about five years too late.
07/26/02
Who 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 CriticPerhaps the most annoying thing about Who Is Cletis Tout? is that it's a crime movie made by someone who obviously knows nothing about crime.
07/26/02
Charming, if overly complicated...
07/26/02
Top CriticVer Wiel's desperate attempt at wit is lost, leaving the character of Critical Jim two-dimensional and pointless.
07/26/02
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07/26/02
[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 CriticScreenwriter Chris ver Weil's directing debut is good-natured and never dull, but its virtues are small and easily overshadowed by its predictability.
07/25/02
This 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 CriticContrived pastiche of caper clichés.
07/25/02
The real question this movie poses is not 'Who?' but 'Why?'
07/25/02
A 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
Mildly entertaining.
07/23/02
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