3 Strikes
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation (MGM) | Release Date: March 1, 2000 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
11
METASCORE
Overwhelming dislike based on 16 Critic Reviews
Positive:
0
Mixed:
0
Negative:
16

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
38
USA TodayStaff [Not Credited]
Interspersed between the misogyny and flatulence jokes apparently left over from Pooh's co-written script for "Friday," there's a story about an ex-con.
33
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
Empty jokes hang heavy. Read full review
31
Mr. ShowbizMichael Atkinson
It's a chilling piece of legal hysteria, and ripe for nasty farce. But Pooh plays it all for buffoonish pratfalls and fart jokes. Read full review
30
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
This picture is just shapeless and shrill. It's disposable, forgettable and aimed at an audience that doesn't care. Read full review
25
New York PostJonathan Foreman
A criminally slow, all-but-laughless blaxploitation comedy.
25
San Francisco ChronicleEdward Guthmann
This is a sloppy hash of a movie, poorly directed and plotted in a way that looks as if it were improvised on the spot. Read full review
25
Chicago TribuneJohn Petrakis
Most of the humor is aimed at 14-year-olds.
20
The New York TimesA.O.Scott
Feels like a very long late-night comedy sketch that occasionally veers beyond tastelessness toward something worse. Read full review
20
Film.comTom Keogh
Could have afforded to be a little loftier and still be quite funny. Instead, it's a waste. Read full review
20
Los Angeles TimesEric Harrison
The bad news is that it's also vile, not to mention sophomoric and unfunny.
20
VarietyJoe Leydon
Exuberantly rude and crude, but generally more frantic than genuinely funny. Read full review
10
Chicago ReaderLisa Alspector
For every jab at hypocrisy in law enforcement or in the media's crime coverage...there's a scene's worth of uninflected scatology or misogyny. Read full review
10
SalonAndrew O'Hehir
A dumb and sloppy movie. Read full review
0
Austin ChronicleMarjorie Baumgarten
Reeks as badly as it sounds. Read full review
0
L.A. WeeklyJohn Patterson
Three strikes maybe, but no stars and no thumbs up (except the one way, way up its own ass). Read full review
0
New York Daily NewsJami Bernard
This needlessly vulgar exercise in overuse of the n-word bills itself as a comedy. Even the outtakes over the closing credits don't live up to that. Read full review
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