The pairing had potential to be quite funny, but unfortunately they are stuck with a script that feels like its been on the shelf since the mid-'80's.

| Original Score: D | Nov 19, 2019

While Fiddler is a bumbler, he is not stupid, and actually makes a few good decisions. Vann is clever dealing with criminals, but he has some emotional shortcomings. They are an interesting pair, and in this genre, that is what really counts.

| Original Score: C+ | Apr 6, 2016

A derivative, readily-forgettable insult to the intelligence!

| Original Score: 0/4 | May 25, 2007

...watered-down and egregiously silly...

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 7, 2007

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 12, 2006

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

If the fart jokes had been cut out, if the ultimate identity were less of an anticlimax, if Levy had had some context, if Jackson showed the slightest rapport with his co-star... No, it's no good; The Man is a dud. Move along people, nothing to see here.

| Oct 26, 2005

Only Levy gets out of this one looking good.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 15, 2005

A clever idea that wears thin long before the movie ends.

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

While both actors are too professional to simply phone their performances in, they must have realized early on that they were fighting a losing battle against the material.

| Oct 6, 2005

I haven't seen such meaningful insight into the nature of human cooperation since this morning's Sesame Street.

| Original Score: 0.5/5 | Sep 24, 2005

Utterly and fantastically boring and totally without purpose.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 21, 2005

It's not dreadful, but the movie is executed with total indifference, as if its creators are working from a checklist.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Sep 18, 2005

There's nothing here you haven't seen elsewhere.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 18, 2005

A compendium of every odd-couple pairing ever made -- tricked out with a sufficiently high flatulence quotient to satisfy the requirements of the most demanding 5 year old.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 17, 2005

The problem with "The Man" is that because it's so generic, so safe, so absolutely bland, it courts inertia and thus it becomes inert.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Sep 16, 2005

Neither one of these guys is the man.

| Sep 16, 2005

I was thinking it was about a C- movie: unquestionably bad, but not aggressively or annoyingly so. Then Levy's character started farting.

| Original Score: D+ | Sep 16, 2005

Now -- and here comes the important part -- you just have to remember to give either of them something remotely funny to do or say.

| Sep 15, 2005

Whenever I see cruddy movies such as "The Man," I figured that the actors either owed somebody a favor or signed a contract.

Full Review | Original Score: .5/4 | Sep 13, 2005