The lack of plot and lack of action are fatal flaws.
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01/01/00
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
Reviews for The Mod Squad
The predictable result is a sketchy, half-baked, stylistically inconsistent movie that scarcely even pretends to care whether it makes sense or not.
01/01/00
Add another to the scrap heap of hip '60s and '70s TV shows reduced to cinematic rubble by the inspiration-starved minds in Hollywood.
03/24/02
The film simply doesn't deliver anything sufficiently remarkable to distinguish itself from sturdier competition.
06/05/02
An exercise in robotic filmmaking.
01/05/07
The Mod Squad has an intriguing cast, a director who knows how to use his camera and a lot of sly humor. Shame about the story.
01/01/00
Top CriticSubject yourself to this mindless movie in quantities larger than 30 seconds, and you'll certainly regret it.
01/01/00
This isn't a horrible film. It's just no good.
01/01/00
Top CriticMindless, stylish fun.
05/26/06
Not only is this lurid action-thriller lacking wit and excitement, it almost makes its source material look good by comparison.
01/01/00
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03/10/07
A terminally thin, virtually motionless action film.
01/01/00
Yeah, let's make a movie for the kids ... based on a TV show they've never even heard of.
07/26/02
Witty and self-aware at times, but the story is lame.
01/01/00
This is freakin' terrible, you dig?
01/01/00
Some may call this escapist fare -- I call it escape-as-quickly-as-you-can fare.
01/01/00
I couldn't count The Mod Squad's plot holes with a calculator.
01/01/00
Nearly every scene is a guaranteed hoot-fest.
06/18/02
Writer Scott Silver also directed the film, but obviously had no idea how to convey to his actors any sense of enthusiasm or energy.
02/08/03
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.
12/08/02
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