Film Profile: The Longest Yard - (2005)
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"If you can't get out, get even."
- Director: Peter Segal
- Genre: Drama, Comedy, Crime
- Studio: Callahan Filmworks
- Widescreen | Duration: 135 Mins
Overview:
Adam Sandler teams up for the third time with director Peter Segal for this remake of 1974 Burt Reynolds comedy The Mean Machine. Sandler plays a washed-up football star who ends up in jail after a night of drinking and a car chase through downtown Los Angeles. Prison warden James Cromwell asks Sandler to train a group of convicts to take on a team of guards for a warm-up match but, encouraged by motormouth Chris Rock, the failed player sets his sights on winning the game. Lazy, deeply predictable but warmly humorous, this avoids complex characterisation in favour of well-worn clichés - sadistic guards, brutes who just want to be loved, the inevitable spell in solitary confinement - as motivation for the underdog team. The sports section of the movie, in which all that sadism is avenged, is far more successful due to tight choreography of the game and the pleasure of seeing bullies punished. Ultimately, the film will appeal to you only if you're excited by slow-motion shots of sweaty hulks smashing into one another and rallying speeches aplenty.
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