A Major Disappointment

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

I was delighted with the casting choices here, but in all honesty, they just don't work. Dreyfus and Reynolds are bumping heads, dramatically speaking. The gags don't work. You have four greats (Dan Hedaya, Seymour Cassel, Richard Dreyfus, and Burt Reynolds), who are all funny and they are all straight/serious, but at all the wrong times, which throw the timing off so badly that you don't get a single good laugh out of it.It tries to feel like the camaraderie experienced in Cocoon, but it comes off more like an extended version of Johnny Skidmarks, and not in a good way! Not that there could BE a good way, I hated that movie! Honestly, it's okay for a light chuckle, but if you're looking for substance of ANY kind, you won't find it here.It rates a 5.5/10 from...the Fiend :.

I saw this movie a couple years ago and I just saw it again when it was on television recently. Back when this movie was released, the mafia theme was hotter than ever for movies and television shows thanks to the success of the HBO show THE SOPRANOS. Several movies about or involving the mob were released, none of which were particulary good. THE CREW was one of those movies. It was a box office dud, earning just $13 million on a budget of $38 million. The movie was pretty much forgotten after disappearing from theaters, yet it continues to be shown on cable constantly. The movie has its moments and Jeremy Piven is great as always, but other than that, there is nothing recommendable about THE CREW. I expected better considering the screenplay was done by one of the guys who wrote KINGPIN. **

this film was entertaining, but lacked original ideas. They ripped off alot of ideas from Goodfellas. If you have seen this movie ,youll know what im talking about. The reference to the trunk of the car and the pausing of the film on a character and narrating then unpausing and continuing the story. Difficult to explain but they did this numerous times in Goodfellas. Buying the gifts for themselves and dryfuss telling them to take it all back like a deniro. It bothers me when people steal ideas from others. total lack of respect.

"The Crew," like one of its leads, Burt Reynolds, had great potential, but squandered it in silliness and a scattershot approach. Reynolds, along with Richard Dreyfuss, Seymour Cassal and Dan Hedaya play over-the-hill mobsters now retired in Miami Beach, trying to save their retirement hotel from the intrusion of yuppies. The scheme the use to do this is actually quite clever. However, as always, the "devil is in the details". The execution is too violent and sexually gamey for senior citizens (particularly female), too silly and juvenile for teen audiences and too predictable for the rest of us. Certainly, I cannot quibble with the casting or the performances in "The Crew". In addition to the leads, Lainie Kazan is always a welcome attraction, as is Jennifer Tilly (when one can keep his eyes off her boobs or her legs, one realizes Tilly can be a first rate actress). Carrie Anne-Moss seems a bit miscast. She's a bit to hard to engender the kind of warmth necessary in her role. But Miguel Sandoval excels in a thankless, stereotypical role as the drug lord. Although Touchstone Films premiered with a film using frontal nudity ("Splash"), the sex and violence in "The Crew" seems out of place. Let's see, we have simulated oral sex, Men's magazine level near nudity (course, no worse than you see at the beach or a public pool) and violence involving baseball bats, shotguns and near drownings. Have we really been THIS desensitized?