3 Strikes (2000)
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Reviews Counted: 28 Fresh: 0 Rotten:28 Average Rating: 2.3/10
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3 Strikes lacks direction and its low-brow humor isn't even that funny.
Runtime: 82 mins
Synopsis: This action-packed comedy follows a two time criminal (Hooks) who is already in trouble with the law. Threatened with serving a life sentence if he's convicted a third time, he commits to going straight and narrow. It isn't long before trouble finds him once again when an acquaintance of his... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Brian Hooks, N'Bushe Wright, Faizon Love, David Alan Grier, E-40
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02/27/01
Relies much too heavily on multiple repetitions of gags that aren’t especially funny the first time around.
02/14/01
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To give you an idea of the level of comedy here, Fargas has fewer lines than farts, playing a flatulent uncle.
01/01/00
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Unoriginal and insulting, 3 Strikes goes down without scoring a single chuckle.
01/01/00
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The simplistic formula of 3 Strikes relies on sexual humor, flatulence and references to not-so-current events, with the bombardment of mediocre jokes soon growing tiresome and repetitive.
01/01/00
A sloppy hash of a movie, poorly directed and plotted in a way that looks as if it were improvised on the spot.
01/01/00
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3 Strikes is unlikely to break new ground as yet another attempt by rap musicians and producers to reach white Multiplex audiences with a low-budget comedy.
01/01/00
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The problem with the film is of course the weak script. Slapstick requires impeccable timing, and this doesn't have it.
01/01/00
There's absolutely no momentum -- comedic or otherwise -- to propel the film or hold one's interest in what transpires.
01/01/00
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