Watered-down sequel isn't meant for kids.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 30, 2010

I was really glad when it was over.

| Apr 6, 2010

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 1, 2006

One of the cuddliest, cutest movies you'll ever see about mobsters and murderers.

Full Review | Mar 7, 2005

A messy, overlong film, but it's impossible to take seriously and therefore more than a little entertaining.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 7, 2005

You know a sequel isn't working when, ten minutes into the movie, a voice inside your head starts screaming, 'Please make it stop!'

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 7, 2005

The movie feels more like a cavalcade of personalities than anything resembling a story.

Full Review | Mar 5, 2005

It's a step down, a big one, on both fronts and neither does the kind of job here that could be construed as anything remotely their best.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 5, 2005

This bumbling exercise in redundant replication is as disagreeably lukewarm as a heavily trafficked municipal baby pool.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 4, 2005

It's kind of -- hmmmm, less than good, a little better than not bad, almost all right, mediocre without being grating, sort of in the C-minus-to-C-minus-minus range.

| Mar 4, 2005

If you're looking for a primer on the worst ways to adapt an Elmore Leonard novel, look no further.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 4, 2005

It can't decide if it's a comedy or a musical -- rocking ballads by Milian and a duet with Aerosmith's Steven Tyler are sweet interludes but ruinous to any sense of paced humor.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 4, 2005

Like being spritzed by a bottle of stale seltzer.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 4, 2005

There's really no need to pay much attention to the plot.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 4, 2005

It's instantly forgettable, but smooth fun most of the way.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 4, 2005

Keeps wandering off on tangents, and after a while its audience does, too.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 4, 2005

The book's various thugs, pistol-waving gangstas and Russian mafia are so cartoonishly portrayed they're about as scary as members of the Wile E. Coyote Fan Club.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 4, 2005

Utterly forgettable -- and, yes, utterly uncool.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 4, 2005

The movie lacks anything approaching a rhythm -- which, as everyone knows, is the record business' deadliest sin.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 4, 2005

The film's one redeeming quality may be its eventual use as a thesis subject for some would-be Phd ('Be Cool: Deconstructing Hollywood at its Worst'). But that will be little consolation for anyone who wastes nine bucks on a ticket for this movie.

Full Review | Original Score: D | Mar 4, 2005