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, ...

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 ...

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.

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 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 ...