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 "Cattaneo should have followed the runaway success of his first film, The Full Monty, with something different."
-- The Wolf, IOFILM.CO.UK
 "Like The Full Monty, this is sure to raise audience’s spirits and leave them singing long after the credits roll."
-- Chris Wiegand, BOXOFFICE MAGAZINE
"Overall, it's good, not great. This is a pleasant enough but small English romantic comedy."
-- Ron Wells, FILM THREAT
"If you adored The Full Monty so resoundingly that you’re dying to see the same old thing in a tired old setting, then this should keep you reasonably entertained."
-- Scott Weinberg, APOLLO GUIDE
"The intent is almost exactly the same [as The Full Monty]. All that's missing is the spontaneity, originality and delight."
-- Jim Slotek, JAM! MOVIES
"You'd think by now America would have had enough of plucky British eccentrics with hearts of gold. Yet the act is still charming here."
-- Michael Phillips, CITYSEARCH
"Whatever satire Lucky Break was aiming for, it certainly got lost in the "soon-to-be-forgettable" section of the quirky rip-off prison romp pile. It's petty thievery like this that puts flimsy flicks like this behind bars"
-- Frank Ochieng, MOVIE EYE
"It is amusing, and that's all it needs to be."
-- Pam Grady, REEL.COM
"If The Full Monty was a freshman fluke, Lucky Break is [Cattaneo] sophomore slump."
-- Duane Dudek, MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL
"Overall the film feels like a low-budget TV pilot that could not find a buyer to play it on the tube."
-- Robin Clifford, REELING REVIEWS
"Nothing more than a widget cranked out on an assembly line to see if stupid Americans will get a kick out of goofy Brits with cute accents performing ages-old slapstick and unfunny tricks."
-- Jeffrey M. Anderson, SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER
"A bit of jailhouse schlock, sure, but you'll enjoy doing the time."
-- E! ONLINE
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-- Eric D. Snider, ERICDSNIDER.COM
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"Where the film falters is in its tone."
-- Neil Smith, BBCI FILMS
"…an adorably whimsical comedy that deserves more than a passing twinkle."
-- Elias Savada, NITRATE ONLINE
"The end result is like cold porridge with only the odd enjoyably chewy lump."
-- John Patterson, L.A. WEEKLY
"This is mostly well-constructed fluff, which is all it seems intended to be."
-- Andy Klein, NEW TIMES
"Cattaneo reworks the formula that made The Full Monty a smashing success ... but neglects to add the magic that made it all work."
-- Ken Fox, TV GUIDE'S MOVIE GUIDE
"The script is a tired one, with few moments of joy rising above the stale material."
-- David Cornelius, AMAZING COLOSSAL WEBSITE
"Even if it ultimately disappoints, the picture does have about a matinee admission's worth of funny to keep it afloat."
-- Rob Blackwelder, SPLICEDWIRE
"A wildly funny prison caper."
-- Erica Abeel, FILM JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
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-- Ian Waldron-Mantgani, UK CRITIC
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-- Marjorie Baumgarten, AUSTIN CHRONICLE
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ROTTEN 47%
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"Lucky Break is perfectly inoffensive and harmless, but it's also drab and inert."
-- Stephanie Zacharek, SALON.COM
"Lightly reflective and consistently entertaining, Lucky Break is an easy-to-take diversion."
-- Kevin Thomas, LOS ANGELES TIMES
"A negligible British comedy."
-- Lisa Schwarzbaum, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"Not as good as The Full Monty, but a really strong second effort."
-- Richard Roeper, EBERT & ROEPER
"Mike Leigh mainstay Timothy Spall deftly shades in the designated goner, fellow Still Crazy alum Bill Nighy is sweetly wispy as the capable fop, and anger-management counselor Olivia Williams trembles pleasantly as usual."
-- Ed Park, VILLAGE VOICE
"No worse a film than Breaking Out, and Breaking Out was utterly charming."
-- Michael O'Sullivan, WASHINGTON POST
"Suffers from over-familiarity since hit-hungry British filmmakers have strip-mined the Monty formula mercilessly since 1997."
-- Lou Lumenick, NEW YORK POST
"A prison comedy that never really busts out of its comfy little cell."
-- Terry Lawson, DETROIT FREE PRESS
"A pleasing but routine British comedy set in an English prison."
-- Mick LaSalle, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
"Forced, familiar and thoroughly condescending."
-- Dave Kehr, NEW YORK TIMES
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-- Luca Bandirali, REVISION
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