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27 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 70The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttWho knew Samuel L. Jackson and Eugene Levy would make such a dynamic comic duo?
- 63ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliLevy and Jackson save the day, and the film. The Man isn't great entertainment, but it contains enough laughter-provoking material to make it worth a look.
- 50VarietyRobert KoehlerVarietyRobert KoehlerFunctional if thoroughly uninspired movie. Because it clings to the comedy-action template of "48 Hrs.," pic feels like it could have been made 15 years ago.
- 50The New York TimesDana StevensThe New York TimesDana StevensWhile nothing in the movie - least of all the two main performances - is especially fresh or original, it does have a few decent gags and amusing moments.
- 40L.A. WeeklyJohn PattersonL.A. WeeklyJohn PattersonJackson and Levy strike only damp sparks off each other, and they seem to have been introduced to each other --without benefit of rehearsal -- mere moments before the director cried "Action!"
- 38Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertNobody needed to make it, nobody needs to see it, Jackson and Levy are too successful to waste time with it. It plays less like a film than like a deal.
- 33Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanMost of The Man is as awful as last year's debacle, "Taxi," yet Levy, stuck in a no-brainer variation on Billy Crystal's predicament in "Analyze This," shows just enough noodgy passive-aggression to suggest what the movie might have been were it not shackled to buddy-action clichés.
- 30Washington PostDesson ThomsonWashington PostDesson ThomsonUnfortunately, The Man makes the mistake of assuming casting is all it takes to make a good comedy.
- 10Village VoiceBen KenigsbergVillage VoiceBen KenigsbergFuu . . . cryin' out loud, this movie's dumb.
- 10Dallas ObserverRobert WilonskyDallas ObserverRobert WilonskyIndeed, this is the very kind of lame-brained folly Levy and his SCTV cohorts used to mock on their old show; now it's how he makes rent.