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Movie Overview
Cast
John Cusack
Minnie Driver
Dan Aykroyd
Director
George Armitage
MPAA Rating
R - For strong violence, language and some drug content.
Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)
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OFCS Rating: 75% Fresh
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3/5
"Yet another disappointment!
Grosse Pointe Blank
is full of possibilities (a great hook, a sharp cast, and a wry cynicism that is shamefully lacking from film these days) but comes up short on all sides.0"
Filmcritic.com
Christopher Null
"Once it's running, the velocity is exhilarating."
Philadelphia City Paper
Cynthia Fuchs
4/10
"As a whole, this film only succeeds in making extraordinary people and situations to look banal."
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Dragan Antulov
3.5/4
"...a quirky high-caliber dark comedy that is bound to send your cynicism and funnybone to the same repair shop.
Grosse Pointe Blank
is so effortless in its relentless send-up of everyday drivel"
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Frank Ochieng
2.5/4
"The film offers sufficient small pleasures to make it worth enduring the less effective elements. As a result, while
Grosse Pointe Blank
fails to deliver a fullisade, at least the chamber's not empty, either."
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
3/4
"Definitely not for everybody, but you can't say it's not original."
Q Network Film Desk
James Kendrick
5
"This movie was everything I wanted it to be!"
Cinerina
Karina Montgomery
2/4
"Don't waste precious time watching this. You deserve better."
Montreal Film Journal
Kevin N. Laforest
"Uneven, hard to believe, occasionally funny, but has too much style and not enough substance."
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Mark R. Leeper
3/4
"A concept-driven movie with just a single gimmick: that hired killers are "normal" people outside of work. Surprisingly, it works well."
Movie Habit
Marty Mapes
"The message here is this: Sure, we're greedy, soulless, entrepreneurial slackers, but we've got heart."
Flick Filosopher
MaryAnn Johanson
3/4
"Calling this blend of comedy and violence Tarantino lite may sound like a bash, but it isn't."
Mr. Brown's Movies
Michael Dequina
5/5
"One of 1997's best films, and certainly the funniest and freshest."
eFilmCritic.com
Rob Gonsalves
C+
"It is nowhere near as good as Pulp Fiction but it does have its moments."
Laramie Movie Scope
Robert Roten
"Armitage encourages [Gen-Xers] to keep the skeptical attitude, but to also negoitate some sort of confusing middle ground between maintaining the image without "selling out"."
Movie Views
Ryan Cracknell
"It's a sad day when an actor who's totally, beautifully in touch with his dark side finds himself stuck in a movie that's scared of its own shadow."
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
4/5
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James Rocchi
B
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