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The Whole Ten Yards (Un Vecino Mas Peligroso) [NTSC/REGION 1 & 4 DVD. Import-Latin America]

5 star:		(9)
4 star:		(6)
3 star:		(10)
2 star:		(5)
1 star:		(8)

 

 

Thanks to falsified dental records supplied by his former neighbor Nicholas Oz Oseransky, retired hitman Jimmy The Tulip Tudeski now spends his days compulsively cleaning his house and perfecting his culinary skills with his wife, Jill, a purported assassin who has yet to pull off a clean hit. Suddenly, an uninvited and unwelcome connection to their past unexpectedly shows up on Jimmy and Jill's doorstep: it's Oz, and he's begging them to help him rescue his wife from the Hungarian mob. To complicate matters even further, the men, who are out to get Oz, are led by Lazlo Gogolak, a childhood rival of Jimmy's and another notorious hitman. Oz, Jimmy and Jill will have to go the whole nine yards--and then some--to manage the mounting Mafioso mayhem.
There isn't much about this film to enjoy. I was hoping it would be a lot funnier than it was, but I just didn't laugh at anything except Kevin Pollack's character who was hard to understand most of the time. I had no problem with the cast, I enjoyed all of their performances. Especially Kevin Pollack and Natasha Henstridge who really made the film at least somewhat watchable. If only Bruce Willis could have had more funny lines, or Matthew Perry been a little funnier, or if Amanda Peet...wait there's nothing wrong with her. Anyway, I can only recommend this to someone who likes the cast but not necessarily the story, otherwise, this movie gets a 5 out of 10 because they did try...to some degree.

'The Whole Ten Yards' continues the stories of the dentist Oz (played by Matt Perry) and his former neighbor and retired contract killer, Jimmy the Tulip Tudeski (played by Bruce Willis). After escaping with millions of dollars in Mob money in the 'The Whole Nine Yards,' Oz has married Jimmy's ex-wife and moved to California to set up a practice. Jimmy has moved to Mexico with Jill, Oz's former assistant, who has taken up contract killing herself. Jimmy's former boss, Lazlo, is released from jail, and quickly sets out to find Jimmy and what happened to his son, Yanni.

The Good: two words: Kevin Pollack. He stole the show and was the highlight of the movie. His character is like a father to a gang of bumbling mobsters that are constantly bickering and can't keep their hands to themselves. His accent and tendency to mix up his idioms is hysterical.

Also Good: There are select scenes between Jimmy and Oz, and some with Jill (played by Amanda Peet) that bring back the feel of the movie where Oz is the befuddled dentist that can't believe he got caught up in this mess and Jimmy is the cool and collected hitman always one step ahead. Those scenes are both cool and funny.

The Bad: What was with the neurosis of Jimmy's character? The character from 'The Whole Nine Yards' was great and perfect for the part of hitman for that movie. In this movie, Jimmy is breaking down, and the thing is, you're not sure if it is for real or not. Plenty of the scenes could have been much better if Jimmy didn't come off as such a complete lunatic which required Willis to play him way too over the top. Also bad: the plot. It was a good idea. I liked the idea. The execution was bad with the plot twists coming at awkward times. The script probably could have been better.

Overall, this movie exceeded my expectations because I thought the previews made it look terrible. However, it did not live up to its predecessor (and that is taking into consideration that many sequels are not as good as the original). I was still kind of disappointed with it. This movie lacked the edge the first movie had. I'd recommend it as a rental, but I'd spend your money on 'The Whole Nine Yards' for a purchase instead.

My wife brought this turkey home from Blockbuster. The plot and dialogue is lame. A husband and wife team are "hit men." The wife can't shoot straight and the husbnad is retired from the business. the plot centers around a Hungarian mob leader who is released from prison and wants vengance on the retired hit man (Bruce Willis) and a dentist, Mathew Perry. It goes down hill from here. The only interesting characters were the mobster and his son and the son was killed off about mid-movie. This move is a real stinker. Don't waste your time.

The first movie (...Nine Yards) was entertaining. This one is - or should be - an embarrassment to everyone involved in its production. They should have called it "One More Yard", since it is about 1/10 as good as the first one. When the actors are interviewed in the future, this should be the answer to the question "What is the worst movie you ever made?". With all due respect, I have to believe that anyone who writes a positive review of this movie is either not sober, or stands to make money from it in some way.

The sequel no one was jonesing for or waiting to happen does happen and let me tell you something folkes it pretty damn annoying and stupid. Bruce Willis (Sin City, Hostage) reprises his role as hit man Jimmy "The Tulip" Tudeski who is in hiding in some place in Mexico with his new wife, Amanda Peet (Whipped, Igby Goes Down). Matthew Perry (Almost Heroes, Fools Rush In) reprises his role as Oz the dentist who's new wife Nastasha Henstridge (Tv's She Spies, Species 1 and 2) gets kidnapped by old fart mob leader bad dude Lazlo Gogolak, the father of Yanni Gogolak from the first movie, both played by Kevin Pollack (The Usual Suspects, Grumpy and Grumpier Old Men). So, Perry travels to Mexico form Willis' help to save his ex-wife and this takes Willis out of hiding and from him to stop wearing wis, aprons, bunnies slippers and stop vacuuming the rug...hmm. Willis is wasted big time folks and seeing his rear doesnt help at all. Perry falls down, gets hit and wiggles around alot and hey, from his real life experience, maybe he did some drugs or something...booze maybe. That's Bruce Willis' daughter Tallulah Willis as the Girlscout...you rememeber the scene, where Perry opens the door holding the gun telling her "who sent you". Kevin Pollack is not even funny as the old fart. Too much nonsesense and not enough brains.

I bought this on Tuesday and finally watched it last night. I liked it but not as much as i liked the first one. I was very upset that there are no special features except commentary and some trailers. There could have at least been a gag reel or deleted scenes. Because I watched the trailer and the movie and there were some things that were not in the movie that were in the trailer. I think people should see it.

There is no other way to explain why this movie was so spectacularly bad except through analogy.

We are all familair with the concept of "it's so bad it's good" when it comes to bad movies. You look at a movie and think, "Man, this is bad!" But you don't look away. In the end, you conclude that it was so bad it was good.

"The Whole Ten Yards" is like a train wreck... only without the train. It's like the Train company taking out a full page ad in the newspaper to tell everyone that there will be a train wreck at the railroad junction at 5:00 P.M. on Saturday. And you know how it is with train wrecks - they're bad but you just can't look away. Anyway, the people of our town get ready for the 5 PM train wreck. They get blankets and camp out and picnic waiting for the train wreck. They toss the football around and eat cheese and drink wine. Finally, 5:00 approaches and they get ready... and ready... and ready... and 5:00 passes and no train wreck. Minutes pass and people are waiting in postponed anticipation. A half hour passes and people start to get annoyed. An hour passes and people start to leave.... but not all of them. A few remain for 4 hours waiting for the promised train wreck but none occurs - the only thing wrecked was their Saturday afternoon expectations.

The plot was vacant and meandering. The characters (all the holdovers from "The Whole Nine Yards" plus Kevin Pollack playing "Lazlo Goglak" the father to the troublesome gangster in "The Whole Nine Yards" also played by Pollack) suffer immensely. In "The Whole Nine Yards" they were tightly written and well-developed. In this movie, they have become perverse and stunted. The characters and the actors who play them have no idea as to the character's motivation. The plot resolution is both predicitable and preposterous.

At the end, the viewer is wondering why he had waited to see this movie with eager anticipation and angry at having been cheated of the adept comedy which was part of "The Whole Nine Yards." Those who stopped watching before the end of the movie did so because they were convinced (much like the above mentioned train watchers) that this movie would never deliver on its comedic promise. Those who lasted until the end held out hope that the movie would deliver what it promised only to be bitterly disappointed with the result.

Woe to the trusting potential viewer who believes the promises made by this movie. Pity those who have come to learn that "The Whole Ten Yards" is as bland as it is derivative with its ruined characters and its unintelligibly pointless plot.

this was a great movie, however i think it's high time that Warner brought out DVDs in cases comparable to other distributors. i think the cardboard case is absolutely terrible. Movie was great, features were good, packaging was cheap and very nasty. get with the program Warner, we consumers want total quality with our products and packaging, not rubbish that looks like the back of a cerial packet.

This is not anyone's best work. And the story line leaves a lot to be desired. But if you must see it, because you absolutely love one of the A List actors in it, then rent the film. You will not see it more than once.

The first movie was diverting fun, with some surprises - and this sequel follows up with less of the same.

In the last movie, Nick "Oz" Oseransky (Perry) was a dentist and often reluctant conspirator of on-the-run hitman Jimmy "Tulip" Tudeski (Willis), as the contract killer lies low in Canada. At the end of the last movie, Oz married with Jimmy's ex-wife Cynthia (Henstrige) while Jimmy ran off with Jill (Peet), Oz's assistant who turned out to be a contract killer hired by Oz's wife to kill him. It was diverting fun, which looked more like it was more fun to make than it was to watch.

In "Ten Yards", Oz and Jimmy remain married but not quite happily. Oz is a wealthy dentist in Brentwood, CA, but his home less a castle than an embattled fortress oozing with high-tech security devices and dripping with assault weapons. Jimmy has gone the other direction - setting himself up in a Mexican hacienda, becoming an obsessive domestic god while leaving Jill to do the whacking. Needless to say it's an arrangement that doesn't make their wives any happier, especially Jill who, skills aside, only accidentally kills her victims.

Complicating things for everybody is Lazlo Gogolak - the father of Yanni Gogolak from the last movie (both being east-European gangsters played by Kevin Pollak) - who is determined to kill everybody from the last movie.

The humor is scattershot. It's clear that the guys who made this flick are as mystified to the sucess of the last movie as we are, and they've just thrown the leads together hopinng to repeat its sucess, and ramped things up a notch just to remind us that this is a sequel. Willis seems more hair-triggered
psychotic than the last time (and we must wonder twice as often whether Willis will kill Oz) while Oz seems even twice as clutzy as before. Henstridge gets kidnapped early, so her scenes are fewer. Pollack is actually more funny here than in "nine yards" but the script surrounds him with one-note morons that the movie has no interest in developing. There are scenes that are supposed to be either funny or scary, and it seems that the writers were as mystified as the rest of us, hoping that Perry's adorable dopiness and Willis's homididal charm would acrry the way. How much you enjoy this flick will depend on how much you enjoyed the last movie.