Get Shorty

Made me want to vomit in my mouth. I am 5'5" and that is classified as short, but still I think this movie is bad. I thought it was supposed to be funny, but its not... Full review

NOT TOO BAD, I HAD A LITTLE BIT OF A DIFFICULT TIME GETTING INTO THE CHARACTERS, THEY JUST WERE NOT THAT APPEALING TO ME. BUT, THE FILM DOES HAVE SOME FUN MOMENTS.... Full review

The only performance worth watching in this film, is Rene Russo's. But this story of a gangster interested in the entertainment industry, held no interest for me.... Full review

This movie was silly, and childish, please no, i like things, but there are some people that KnWo me, with bigger ideas for paper clips. SO with out further ado, let me introduce, I will take 12 white chickens, for the... Full review

this movie was not good........the cast was extravegant but the movie itself presented very little creativity............the story was mediocre and the ending is stupid............travolta is one of my favs.......but sad to c him in this 1.... Full review

Get Shorty is the perfect example of putting together a fine teams of actors and actresses and creating a worthless garbage movie. The movie featured names such as John Travolta, Rene Russo, Gene Hackman, Danny DeVito, and James Gandolfini, but had... Full review

This is one of my favorite movies ever. The cast is amazing and it's a pretty good story. I think you need to watch it more than once to totally get it, but there aren't many better. The way the pieces... Full review

Director Barry Sonnenfeld sweet adaptation of Elmore Leonard’s 1990 novel about satirical Hollywood. With entwined plots, featuring a very good cast who all performed nicely in there roles. Sonnenfeld comical outlook is quite entertaining in his direction, as he showcased raunchy... Full review

Nope, couldn't get into this one. I just thought the plot and acting were pretty boring. Traolta is a pretty good actor as much as I like to pick on him, so I'm wondering why he decided to sign on for... Full review

Thats not really true, it got fantastic reviews, just no one knows about it 8 years later. I saw the trailer for this when I was probobly 9, and wanted to see it. Though I wasnt bright enough to under stand... Full review

scenes of frantic mugging.... ... Full Review

Get Shorty - Special Edition - DVD Aside from that, the rest of the features are a lot of fun, giving a good look at the thought process that went into making Get Shorty . ... Full Review

making Get Shorty look effortless actually took a lot of work.....In either case, it's a shame to see Get Shorty dressed up as a marketing strategy for its sequel.....Faced with a great movie, he can't help himself.....Hearing about the details of Leonard's research-down to noting the color and pattern of casino carpeting-makes the jam-packed Sonnenfeld film all the more impressive.....he gives a terrific performance may not have seemed either obvious or surprising..... ... Full Review

The sheer volume of information presented in Get Shorty is just way too much to absorb in 2 hours, and it results in a talky, sanitized, often boring, tragicomedy that begins to fade from memory as soon as you leave the theater. The new special edition DVD includes commentary from director Barry Sonnenfeld plus a second disc full of extras -- making of featurettes, outtakes, a deleted scene, and more. ... Full Review

This puts the disc in an odd position, reminding everyone how much fun Get Shorty is while emphasizing that theres a newer model on its way. Sonnenfeld keeps all of this under two hours by cutting the movie at a dazzling clip. ... Full Review

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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Writer-director Charlie Matthau is taking a shot at Elmore Leonard . Matthau has written a screenplay inspired by Leonard's 1988 novel "Freaky Deaky" and will direct an adaptation of it. ... Full Article

The, er, Men in Black have paid Barry Sonnenfeld an undisclosed amount to bring the Tom Swift novels to the big screen. The Tom Swift character, one-half of a father-son team who are among the greatest inventors of all time,... ... Full Article

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"Along with The Player, Singing In The Rain and Ed Wood, Get Shorty is a quintessential Hollywood film, one of the better satires on filmmaking where the philosophy, as everyone knows, is that Mafia crooks are not as crooked as... ... Full Article