The Mod Squad Critic Reviews

A great-looking picture that zips along with grace, light on its feet but possessed of just enough gravity to allow us to take its people rather than its old TV series premise seriously. Read the full review

Curiously enough plays like a 90-minute version of the old television show. That's not necessarily bad. Read the full review

Has an intriguing cast, a director who knows how to use his camera and a lot of sly humor. Shame about the story. When you see this many of the right elements in a lame movie, you wonder how close they came to making a better one. Read the full review

This is the kind of movie that isn't even worth renting when it comes out on video because, with the possible exception of Michael Lerner and Omar Epps dancing to show tunes, you've seen it all before. Read the full review

Presents undercover law enforcement less as a profession than as an accessory, an excuse to pout and glower chicly, to stand around in nightclubs acting like a sullen version of the Last American Rebel. Read the full review

Clean up the language, and this little roach of a movie could play the bottom half of a double bill with Rowan and Martin's “The Maltese Bippy.” [26 March 1999, Life, p.9E]Read the full review

The story moves so slowly and obviously, you don't even need to be in the theater very much (or your living room when the video comes out) to follow it. Read the full review

Feels like the most shameless effort yet in the renewed exploitation of the youth market.Read the full review

Torturously boring. Read the full review