Plunkett & Macleane
Gramercy Pictures (I) | Release Date: October 1, 1999 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
44
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 27 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
12
Negative:
9

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
L.A. WeeklyElla Taylor
Lewd, crude and occasionally too brutal to take, it's also gorgeous, heartfelt. Read full review
80
NewsweekLouise Rosen
A highly entertaining movie in a genre that is often as stiff as the Lady Gibson's boning. Read full review
79
Mr. ShowbizKevin Maynard
A cross between a Hogarth painting and an MTV video, Plunkett & Macleane cuts quite a swath. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeJay Carr
Scott makes it easy to overlook the conventionality beneath his sometimes overdone but almost always enjoyable combination of atmosphere and propulsiveness. Read full review
63
Miami HeraldCurtis Morgan
A tad too raunchy for its own good. Read full review
63
Baltimore SunMilton Kent
Too much fun to ignore. Read full review
60
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
It's vulgar, to be sure, but it's also brash and invigorating. Read full review
60
Chicago ReaderLisa Alspector
This buddy movie grows on you. Read full review
60
Dallas ObserverAndy Klein
Its greatest flaw is the casting of Miller ("Trainspotting," "Hackers"), who continues to have virtually no screen presence...For all that, Plunkett & Macleane is fun. Read full review
50
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
Watchable in a facile, trashy way. Unfortunately, most of the movie is mired in sludge, slime, mud, blood, and studiously dank cinematography. Read full review
50
Seattle Post-IntelligencerPaula Nechak
There's not an original idea rattling around in the empty-headed but gorgeous-to-behold period film. Read full review
50
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
Its noisily inappropriate pop-rock score overwhelms its meager subplots about British class conflict. Read full review
50
The New York TimesStephen Holden
None of it adds up to terribly much beyond a rip-roaring adventure that shows off Carlyle and Miller as cynical British city cousins of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Read full review
50
USA TodayMike Clark
The plunk-ing of a rap/disco soundtrack onto a movie about debtors' prisons and 18th century British highwaymen? Read full review
50
Charlotte ObserverLawrence Toppman
The whole thing seems to have been faked up for our amusement, like a circus freak show. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerDesmond Ryan
Cheerful mishmash. Read full review
40
Film.comGemma Files
It doesn't really hang together. And waaay too much style. Pity. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
Rollicking is the term that best sums up Plunkett and Macleane, not in itself a bad thing, just, I think, not a very good thing. Read full review
38
Chicago TribuneBarbara Shulgasser
Scott treats the material as if it were grist for a 30-second spot or a rowdy music video. Read full review
38
New York PostJonathan Foreman
A noisy, amateurish mess that doesn't work on any level - an extended, clich-ridden MTV video set to anachronistic bad music. Read full review
38
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
A film overgrown with so many directorial flourishes that the heroes need machetes to hack their way to within view of the audience. Read full review
30
Village VoiceGary Daupin
The script is as full of holes as some of the highwaymen's bullet-riddled victims -- why not throw a drum-and-bass track over everything? Read full review
30
Washington PostDesson Thomson
No darn good. Read full review
25
Portland OregonianShawn Levy
An ugly, stupid movie it turned out to be. Incoherent, arbitrary, hyperactive and dark enough to make you fear you've gone blind. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
A repellent, stupid film. Read full review
20
Los Angeles TimesJan Stewart
Everything is stunningly photographed by John Mathieson, but to paraphrase Gertrude Stein, a cockroach is a cockroach is a cockroach. Read full review
5
TNT RoughCutDaysun Chang
An empty void of tasteless action, formula plot, and dull dialogue set in a sadly under-utilized time period. Read full review
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