A past-his-prime football superstar gets thrown in jail for drunk driving. Once in lockup, he declines to coach the guards' team, but whips a ragtag bunch of inmates into a "mean machine" who go up against the guards in a wild, climactic free-for-all of a game. If this sounds familiar, it's because it's the plot of Robert Aldrich's THE LONGEST YARD, a 1974 action-comedy starring Burt Reynolds. This UK remake features former English soccer (what they call football) star Vinnie Jones and follows the Aldrich playbook pretty faithfully, which is more an observation than a criticism. Taciturn Danny Meehan's (Jones) career went down in flames over a game-fixing scandal, an...
Released:
2001
Rated:
R
Length:
99 mins