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76
Viewer score based on 9 votes.

Critic Score

40
Critics' score based on 18 reviews.
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Not a bad movie - certainly action-packed, it holds your interest. And I especially like the mom - what a tough broad this is!

June 12,2011
rrosen242

i love this movie, it's my mom, lil sis and mine favorite..... i can't get enough of rick... . my future husband... Full Review

February 07,2011
TWEETYORTIZ

I absolutely loved this movie. I loved how 'Millie' took charge of her and the lives of her sons. She showed her strength from the very beginning of... the movie. She did what she had to do to protect them and made sure that they were financially stable enough to make it on their own. I see so much of myself in her character only I don't have the money. I congratulate John Singleton and the rest of the cast and crew for a film well worth the time, money and effort it took to produce and direct. Full Review

February 06,2009
ReginBan

I did not like this movie one bit. The mother places her son in a positin where he has to protect the family for her sins. And I have no clue as to... why they vindicated the patriach's murder. Very disappointed in this movie. Full Review

November 08,2008
AMEOTM1

I absolutly LOVE this album! Michael Gettel is a genius and this is one of his best works.I highly recommend this CD to anyone who has an... on for great music!Ari Ross Full Review

May 22,2008
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Critic Reviews

Quite an entertaining genre piece boasting a terrifically sinewy lead performance from Wanda De Jesus.Full Review

Michael Rechtshaffen
The Hollywood Reporter

The movie's a genuine oddity: a Latino action drama with one foot in bullet-spitting genre flicks -- '70s blaxploitation and '80s coke-kingpin films are the primary reference points -- and the other in raggedly personal family melodrama.Full Review

Ty Burr
Boston Globe

As it is, Illegal Tender works as a melodrama, and it benefits enormously from the performance of Wanda DeJesus.Full Review

Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times

Too muted to have much lasting impact, and remains modestly diverting only on a scene-to-scene basis. There's no quotable dialogue, no standout action sequence, no flashy supporting performances -- in short, nothing to lift Illegal Tender from the level of competent but inconsequential B-movie.Full Review

Joe Leydon
Variety

For a second, the movie has the snap of a truly surprising thriller -- like a Hispanic "Kill Bill" -- about an aging lioness willing to kill to protect her cub.Full Review

Entertainment Weekly
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