Mixed or average reviews - based on 27 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 27
  2. Negative: 9 out of 27
  1. 80
  2. Reviewed by: Louise Rosen
  3. 79
    A cross between a Hogarth painting and an MTV video, Plunkett & Macleane cuts quite a swath.
  4. Reviewed by: Jay Carr
  5. 63
    A tad too raunchy for its own good.
  6. Reviewed by: Milton Kent
    Too much fun to ignore.
  7. 60
  8. 60
    Its greatest flaw is the casting of Miller ("Trainspotting," "Hackers"), who continues to have virtually no screen presence...For all that, Plunkett & Macleane is fun.
  9. 60
    This buddy movie grows on you.
  10. Its noisily inappropriate pop-rock score overwhelms its meager subplots about British class conflict.
  11. Reviewed by: Mike Clark
    The plunk-ing of a rap/disco soundtrack onto a movie about debtors' prisons and 18th century British highwaymen?
  12. The whole thing seems to have been faked up for our amusement, like a circus freak show.
  14. There's not an original idea rattling around in the empty-headed but gorgeous-to-behold period film.
  15. None of it adds up to terribly much beyond a rip-roaring adventure that shows off Carlyle and Miller as cynical British city cousins of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
  16. 40
  17. Reviewed by: Gemma Files
    It doesn't really hang together. And waaay too much style. Pity.
  18. 38
    A film overgrown with so many directorial flourishes that the heroes need machetes to hack their way to within view of the audience.
  20. A noisy, amateurish mess that doesn't work on any level - an extended, clich-ridden MTV video set to anachronistic bad music.
  21. Reviewed by: Gary Daupin
    The script is as full of holes as some of the highwaymen's bullet-riddled victims -- why not throw a drum-and-bass track over everything?
  22. 25
    An ugly, stupid movie it turned out to be. Incoherent, arbitrary, hyperactive and dark enough to make you fear you've gone blind.
  23. Reviewed by: Jan Stewart
    Everything is stunningly photographed by John Mathieson, but to paraphrase Gertrude Stein, a cockroach is a cockroach is a cockroach.
  24. Reviewed by: Daysun Chang
User Score

Universal acclaim- based on 12 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 6
  3. Negative: 1 out of 6
  1. Apr 28, 2011
  2. Oct 24, 2010