Mean Machine
6.2
Overview
Disgraced ex-England football captain, Danny 'Mean Machine' Meehan, is thrown in jail for assaulting two police officers. He keeps his head down and has the opportunity to forget everything and change the lives of the prisoners. When these prisoners have the chance to put one over the evil guards during a prison football match, Danny takes the lead.
Review (1)
John Chard (Rated: 7)
1-0 to the Mean Machine.
Mean Machine is an English reworking of Robert Aldrich's 1974 beefcake Burt Reynolds starrer, The Longest Yard. Substituting Gridiron for Soccer, director Barry Skolnick, along with his roll call of British "faces", is only aiming for one market.
That of the footie wor...
Recommendation & Similar
The Secret NASA Transmissions The Smoking Gun (2001)
Vysotsky: Thank God I'm Alive (2011)
Love Sick (2006)
Joshua Tree (1993)
East Is East (1999)
You the Rich (1948)
The Longest Yard (1974)
The Football Factory (2004)
Spun (2003)
The Great Gilly Hopkins (2015)
Seized (2020)
Needful Things (1993)
Starship Troopers: Invasion (2012)
Trust (2021)
Wild Target (2010)
Cold in July (2014)
13 (2010)
Alfie (2004)
Tekken (2010)
Ghosts of Mars (2001)
