The Whole Nine Yards
22,014
Comedy
Montreal, Canada. A down-on-his luck dentist, "Oz" Oseransky (Matthew Perry), discovers that his new neighbor is Jimmy "The Tulip" Tudeski (Bruce Willis), former mob-contract-killer-turned-police-informant upon whose head the Hungarian mob has put a steep price. Egged on by his loathsome wife, Sophie (Rosanna Arquette), Oz sets off to Chicago to let the mob know where The Tulip is and hopefully claim part of the reward.
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United States | New York Daily News | "It provides the first genuine laughs I've had at the movies in this young year." | POS |
United States | Chicago Sun-Times | "I know this is not the greatest comedy of all time, or even of the first seven weeks of the century, but I was entertained beyond all expectation. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)" | POS |
United States | The New York Times | "Underwhelming, amusing only in fits and starts" | NEU |
United States | The Washington Post | "This Matt Perry vehicle is funnier than anyone could hope to expect." | POS |
United States | Slate | "A second-rate but bearable black comedy" | NEU |
United States | New York Post | "An offer you shouldn't refuse: It's laugh-out-loud, side-splitting funny." | POS |
United States | Miami Herald | "Sporadically amusing" | NEU |
United States | Chicago Reader | "Bruce Willis's marvelous performance as a contract killer only makes everything else about this comedy seem more pathetic." | NEG |
United States | Variety | "A crudely funny farce that covers no new ground but sees its talented players running some surefire plays." | POS |
United States | Los Angeles Times | "A peppy affair that works in fits and starts but is unable to put its successful moments together in any consistently satisfying way" | NEU |
United States | Salon | "Stupid, empty and -- worst of all -- fantastically boring" | NEG |
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