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08/09/02
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?
Why sit through a crummy, wannabe-hip crime comedy that refers incessantly to old movies, when you could just rent those movies instead, let alone seek out a respectable new one?
08/08/02
Quirky, often-fun film.
08/08/02
Warmed-over Tarantino by way of wannabe Elmore Leonard.
08/05/02
Whereas the extremely competent hitman films such as Pulp Fiction and Get Shorty resonate a sardonic verve to their caustic purpose for existing, Who Is Cletis Tout? is an inexpressible and drab wannabe looking for that exact niche.
08/04/02
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08/03/02
It's just a little too self-satisfied.
08/02/02
Merely a diversion, but clever enough to divert.
08/02/02
At best, Cletis Tout might inspire a trip to the video store -- in search of a better movie experience.
08/02/02
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
It won't hold up over the long haul, but in the moment, Finch's tale provides the forgettable pleasures of a Saturday matinee.
08/02/02
Cletis is playful but highly studied and dependent for its success on a patient viewer.
08/02/02
While 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
The 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
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
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
(A) misfired exercise in recycled crime movie clichés...
08/01/02
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
I could just feel the screenwriter at every moment 'Tap, tap, tap, tap, tapping away' on this screenplay.
07/31/02
A smug and convoluted action-comedy that doesn't allow an earnest moment to pass without reminding audiences that it's only a movie.
07/30/02
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