A disgraced soccer star trains a motley bunch of convicts in "Mean Machine," a British makeover of Robert Aldrich's 1974 "The Longest Yard" that's OK entertainment but nothing more. Low budget in ...

ON January 2 a man came into the Cancer Research shop in Blackburn, asking how he could get to it with his car as he had six bags of clothes to… ...

“Mean Machine,” a rough-and-tumble British comedy opening Friday, ... Danny is compelled by the warden to coach a team of convicts in a practice match against the semipro team of guardsmen, ...

Mean Machine was released in 2001, but all who have seen it likely had a feeling of deja vu. You see, writer Charlie Fletcher lifted the story from an earlier film, The Longest Yard. So, just like ...

Mean Machine introduces a few colorful characters, most notably David Kelly (Waking Ned Devine), who reprises his sentimental role in Greenfingers as a grizzled lifer who befriends the hero, and ...

David Hemmings (as the prison governor – that's warden for us Americans) and Jason Statham ... The official Mean Machine website can be found HERE. 1.5 out of 5 Stars, 3/10 Score.

Mean Machine has primarily been criticized for its lack of originality.Despite being the British remake of 1974's The Longest Yard, viewers were of the opinion that the film failed to migrate the ...

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I KNOW what the Longest Yard is. It's the yard between where I was sitting, and the door marked Exit. It's such a short distance except when you know there's 90 minutes to go before you can walk ...

The warden gets him in his prison to play for the warden's team, but he doesn't want anything to do with football. I end up getting a group of cons together and playing against the wardens.

The campaign to convince us that Vinnie Jones is a movie star continues. Unfortunately, in his new film - his first as a leading man - he fails to convince even as a former footballer ...