The Man (2005) Critic Reviews
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Who knew Samuel L. Jackson and Eugene Levy would make such a dynamic comic duo?Read the full review
Levy and Jackson save the day, and the film. The Man isn't great entertainment, but it contains enough laughter-provoking material to make it worth a look.Read the full review
While nothing in the movie - least of all the two main performances - is especially fresh or original, it does have a few decent gags and amusing moments.Read the full review
Functional if thoroughly uninspired movie. Because it clings to the comedy-action template of "48 Hrs.," pic feels like it could have been made 15 years ago.Read the full review
Passable--just.Read the full review
It's the kind of featherweight slot-filler people turn off after 15 minutes on a plane or have on in the background on cable while they vacuum the floor.Read the full review
Dreadful.Read the full review
In Roy Orbison terms, enduring this movie is like working for The Man.Read the full review
Nobody needed to make it, nobody needs to see it, Jackson and Levy are too successful to waste time with it. It plays less like a film than like a deal.Read the full review
Most of The Man is as awful as last year's debacle, "Taxi," yet Levy, stuck in a no-brainer variation on Billy Crystal's predicament in "Analyze This," shows just enough noodgy passive-aggression to suggest what the movie might have been were it not shackled to buddy-action clichés.Read the full review
