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08/04/07
The Ten (2007)
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Reviews Counted:79
Fresh:30
Rotten:49
Average Rating:5.2/10
Consensus: Although a few of the sketches that make up The Ten are humorous, the uneven and random tone of the film cause it to fall apart.
Reviews for The Ten
The Ten may be the funniest movie of the year. It's so earnest, they follow the most ridiculous threads to the logical extreme. All of the characters are completely committed to the reality of the film.
08/04/07
Everyone involved seems to have been operating from the presumption that gross and blasphemous equals hilarious. Would that it did.
08/03/07
A lame and irritating comedy that is an endurance test to sit through.
08/03/07
Not so much blasphemous as it is very silly, and it lives up to the one unbendable commandment of comedy: It's funny.
08/03/07
A resoundingly mediocre film that commits the cardinal sin of tedium.
08/03/07
It's more a frivolous spoof than a pointed satire.
08/03/07
Multi-segment movies tend to be notoriously uneven, and this definitely proves to be the case with The Ten.
08/03/07
The Ten is so proud of its own wit and irreverence that when you fail to be equally impressed, you are likely to wonder if your own sense of humor is, in some way, deficient. Rest assured it is not.
08/03/07
Too often, The Ten is simply not funny enough, stretched thin by ideas played out too long.
08/03/07
Darkly satiric.
08/03/07
...never fully takes advantage of its biblical premise.
08/03/07
This is one of those films where the humor is of the hit-and-miss variety, and it misses more often than it hits. The jokes are transparent. It's not difficult to divine what's supposed to be funny.
08/03/07
A Decalogue for special-ed students, The Ten leans too often toward the bizarre and the bewildering.
08/03/07
Top CriticDespite many giddy moments, the conceit becomes gradually more exhausting, until somewhere around the seventh commandment you're ready to choose God's wrath over any more overproduced, A-list-acted throwaway TV sketches.
08/02/07
Top Critica foul-mouthed, dirty-as-diapers, Republican-baiting retelling of the Ten Commandments
08/02/07
Where Kieslowski's work always had a goal and a sense for how real people think, nothing about The Ten suggests that the filmmakers ever thought any further than the next meager, uncomfortable titter.
08/02/07
The film is far from a perfect 10, with hit-and-miss writing, an over-reliance on cheap shocks and solid laughs in maybe five of the sketches. Given their brief running time, the weaker efforts are off the screen in short order.
08/02/07
It doesn't make for much of a movie.
08/02/07
Like the comic masterpieces of [Woody] Allen's '70s heyday, the first five short films represent a brilliant, laugh-out-loud combination of grad-school braininess and vaudeville goofiness, highbrow absurdity and lowbrow shtick.
08/02/07
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