Not only is this film completely useless, it's also about five years too late.
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07/26/02
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.
Runtime: 1 hr 32 mins
Genre: Comedies
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
Reviews for Who is Cletis Tout?
(A) misfired exercise in recycled crime movie clichés...
08/01/02
If you love movies, it's hard not to like Who Is Cletis Tout? or at least smile through it.
08/16/02
Quirky, often-fun film.
08/08/02
There's skimpiness to the whole movie that undercuts its good effort at a modern-minded twist on high-style nostalgia.
07/28/02
de Rossi's inability to handle a two-wheeler stands in as a peculiarly pithy commentary on the rest of the film: unwieldy, incomprehensibly inept, embarrassing, and pointless.
08/01/02
Who is the audience for Cletis Tout? Anybody who enjoys quirky, fun, popcorn movies with a touch of silliness and a little bloodshed.
08/02/02
Contrived pastiche of caper clichés.
07/25/02
On the level of the dime-a-dozen Tarantino wannabes that clutter the bottom shelves at the video store.
01/07/04
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
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
Top CriticAs self-aware movies go, Who is Cletis Tout? is clever enough, though thin writing proves its undoing.
07/27/02
A convoluted comic caper that labors to affect a lighthearted, off-the-cuff feel.
07/19/02
Top CriticAwful.
07/26/02
Fluffy neo-noir hiding behind cutesy film references.
06/27/02
A great idea becomes a not-great movie.
08/15/02
Merely a diversion, but clever enough to divert.
08/02/02
Warmed-over Tarantino by way of wannabe Elmore Leonard.
08/05/02
Not quite as bad as when a black comedy swings and completely misses, the film thankfully isn't entirely awful or a complete embarrassment to all involved.
08/02/02
Topkapi this is not.
07/08/02
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