Synopsis
Disgraced ex-England football captain, Danny 'Mean Machine' Meehan, is thrown in jail for assaulting two police officers. He keeps his head down and has the opportunity to forget everything and change the lives of the prisoners. When these prisoners have the chance to put one over the evil guards during a prison football match, Danny takes the lead.
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Cast
- Vinnie JonesDanny Meehan
- David KellyDoc
- David HemmingsGovernor
- Ralph BrownBurton
- Vas BlackwoodMassive
- Robbie GeeTrojan
- Geoff BellRatchett
- John ForgehamSykes
- Sally PhillipsTracey
- Danny DyerBilly the Limpet
Recommendations
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Philadelphia Inquirer
A likably energetic star vehicle for English sports god Vinnie Jones. - 75
Chicago Sun-Times
Guy Ritchie, who started out as such an innovator in "Lock, Stock, etc.," seems to have headed directly for reliable generic conventions as a producer. But they are reliable, and have become conventions for a reason: They work. Mean Machine is what it is, and very nicely, too. - 70
Los Angeles Times
Mean Machine may not have the resonance to linger in the memory affectionately as "The Longest Yard" does, but it plays well, with a fast pace and plenty of punch. - 50
New York Daily News
In Mean Machine, soccer is pretty much an excuse to watch a bunch of grown men smashing their heads together. Which, come to think of it, may be enough. - 50
Miami Herald
Disappointingly straightforward remake. - 42
Entertainment Weekly
After too many ''Full Monty''s, it has come to look like nothing so much as a coy ritual of emasculation. - 40
Village Voice
The most off-key notes here are the sentimental ones: When David Kelly shows up, reprising the wise-trustee role he had in the horticulture-behind-bars movie "Greenfingers," it's as though some twee script gremlin sneaked in and meddled with the Guy Ritchie schematics. - 38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Barely a chuckle in sight.
