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The Mod Squad

So, it's Friday night and you want to go watch a movie...all you want is something entertaining, not too artsy, or anything that might require a long night of philosophical discussions. So, you pay $10 to watch the Mod Squad. The trailer to this movie should have tipped me off, but come on...it's three of Hollywood's most beautiful people--eye candy. But that's about it...a string of moving Prada ads. And what did Hollywood producers forget? A plot. Why are these kids running around the streets after some unknown enemy? Where are they? But, don't worry, after a while, you'll just stop caring. I was on the verge of walking out of this movie, because I thought sitting in my room and staring at the wall might have been more productive (and free), but by that time, it was over (90 minutes--it's only saving grace). So, still willing to waste $10? Go, get yourself a nice hot meal.

OK, Number one-this "film" is a "90's" version of a crappy show from the 70's that no one remembers! Number two-As soon as the movie started, I was confused, it was like I walked in halfway through the movie! There was no plot! it was very annoying! Horrible wardrobe! Call me crazy, but It's just not believable to me that little skinny Omar Epps can chase down a big grown man, without a gun, and scare him into talking! It's a ridiculous "plot". I'm sorry, but to me, kids these days can't even put their pants on one leg at a time, let alone catch some "evil, underground, killers". I walked out of the theater and demanded and got my money back! I do not reccomend this movie to anyone over 12 years old!

This movie had great production values, good lighting, costumes, set, cinematography and acting. But someone, somewhere, took the script, and replaced all the dialogue with grade-school level barely literate writing. I felt my IQ dropping points any time any character spoke. Did they do this on purpose? Was this just an accident of Brain Dead Studio Executives? At this point, we don't know. All I know is, this movie was one great mistake from beginning to end. We don't even get to see how the Squad became cops, so instead of any character development, we get what feels like a bad TV-movie leftover from the 60's. Or whenever. Find the screenwriters, beat them with a sock full of quarters. Everyone else, nice work, but read your scripts next time. 3/10

Mod Squad is a horrible film. Wow. How it's producers could make so little with a budget of 50 million dollars is beyond me. Beginning with the script, that it's plain awful. Everything in this film makes absolutely no sense. There is no continuity in the sequences, the character development is one of the worst that i've ever saw, and nothing in it is explained in a clever way or whatever. And yes, it's boring, because is so slow, 'cause there is no decent conflict at all. That factor is the worst for any action film, of course. The jokes are the lamest you can think of, and... yeah. The actors were not that bad though, and the soundtrack is actually decent... probably the two main reasons to not give this film a 1 rating. So, Mod Squad, in the bigger and most optimistic of the expectations, will be remembered as the film which almost killed Josh Brolin's career. 2.6/10

The mod squad gets started 'after' the formation of the 'Mod Squad' without even bothering to develop any of the characters or show us why anyone is doing what they are doing. Moreover, most of the events in the movie seem ancillary to the plot. Without even a smack of character development, the plot meanders from Gen-X club scenes to action scenes and back again.

Giovanni Ribisi is a horrible actor, and in this movie he adds an extra layer of spaced-out mongoloid to his repertoire. Omar Epps just grimaces through the whole movie. He just does the minimum to collect his check. Claire Danes is the only reason to watch, but even that gets old fast. James Brolin and Dennis Farina don't add much either. This movie is just some kind of bad idea that got financed, and everyone involved just wanted to get paid, get it done, and move on to something better.

The Mod Squad The worst part about employing young undercover cops is they binge drink at house parties and break cover. Thankfully, the covert trio in this action movie are too busy tracking a killer to attend ragers. Opting to work for the police in a new department instead of serving time, Julie (Claire Danes), Pete (Giovanni Ribisi) and Linc (Omar Epps) are trained in the art of infiltration by their mentor Capt. Greer (Dennis Farina). But when Greer ends up on the wrong side of a drug lord's gun, the motley crew must bring his killer to justice. A slapdash adaptation of the groundbreaking counterculture cop drama from the '60s, this 1999 version lacks the social and political undercurrent of its source material. Instead, it's a lifeless and shoddily acted knock-off - similar to the original in name only. Besides, immature undercover officers today can't stop posting on Twitter about being undercover. Red Light vidiotreviews.blogspot.ca

I must preface this comment with a sort of admission: I suppose I just have a soft spot for the original 60s-70s TV series. I think the filmmakers here blew it from the get-go as far as casting: in a supposed remake, audiences would look for reflections of the hip, athletic Linc (Clarence Williams III), or the cool, with-it Michael Cole, and so forth. Instead, we get Giovanni Ribisi as a poor-little-white rich boy who comes off as just pathetic, like he is in all his roles (in the office I used to work in, I amused myself once by creating a fake movie poster, casting various actors as members of the office staff; guess who I cast as the dorky son of the company President?). Danes does OK as the new Julie, but none of the characters have much to do, as the story just sort of sits there, mired in conventionality. So it's quite forgettable, besides. What was I talking about?