Made 2001

Critics score:
71 / 100

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Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: If there is a more annoying performance than Vaughn's in a movie this year, it can only mean the real Jerry Lewis has made a comeback. Read more

Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: Leaves you wishing they hadn't tried so hard to do something different. Read more

Mark Caro, Chicago Tribune: Made, with its undernourished plot and fizzle of a climax, isn't exactly breaking new ground in mob comedy realism. Read more

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Susan Stark, Detroit News: Won't take the team of Favreau and Vaughn beyond the audience they won with Swingers, but for the converted, it is equally confirming and rewarding. Read more

Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: Made isn't in a particular hurry to get anywhere, but Jon Favreau's script has the feel of improvisation done right. Read more

Steve Murray, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: With both movies and TV constantly mining mob life for script fodder, Made never comes up with a new twist on the material. Read more

Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: So miscalculated and chafingly unfunny is this movie it will leave you convinced that if the gangster comedy isn't killed off by actor-driven improv riffs like this, maybe it ought to be. Better dead than more like Made. Read more

Elvis Mitchell, New York Times: Mr. Favreau demonstrates an admirable need to anger the Swingers faithful ... That ambition doesn't translate into a very good movie. Read more

Lawrence Terenzi, Mr. Showbiz: Despite the film's faults, Favreau puts a fresh spin on the mob movie genre, and that's something we can all admire. Read more

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: A consistent pleasure, a delightful blend of farce and sentiment, its flights of fancy well-grounded in the foibles of human nature. Read more

Louis B. Parks, Houston Chronicle: Amusing in the offbeat humor that comes from the wackiness of odd but believable characters. Read more

Steven Rosen, Denver Post: I wish Made hadn't been made. And if it had to be, I wish it had been made as a silent movie. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Made is little more than a rambling chain of combative buddy mishaps, but the interplay between Vaughn and Favreau, who does great double takes of thrusting chin frustration, spins you through the weak patches. Read more

Gene Seymour, Newsday: You still laugh a lot in spite of a lot of jittery babble. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Everything about this film is dull. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The movie is difficult to describe because it's not what happens that matters, it's how it happens and why. Read more

Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: Vaughn and Favreau almost always give us something to watch. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: The comic invention at work here -- Vaughn's and Favreau's -- make Made into a rough gem. Read more

Derek Adams, Time Out: If the film's too ready to go with the flow of Chris Doyle's handheld camerawork, and sometimes seems ad hoc, its spot-on attention to the faux pas of the moment certainly raises a smile. Read more

Mike Clark, USA Today: An amusing gangster. Read more

Joe Leydon, Variety: Unfortunately, Vaughn repeatedly crosses the line between persuasively playing an obnoxious character and coming across as nerve-gratingly self-indulgent. Read more

Jessica Winter, Village Voice: The checklist of local color is evident, but the movie looks wan and murky. Read more