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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
Read review  Netflix  James Rocchi

B
Read review  Reeling Reviews  Robin Clifford
OFCS Rating: 75% Fresh
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