Disorganized Crime

1989

Action / Comedy / Crime

11
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 59% · 7 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 59% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.3/10 10 2779 2.8K

Plot summary

Lou Diamond Phillips and Fred Gwynne team up with a gang of professional criminals who have everything it takes to rob a bank. The only things they do have going for them are a cop and his partner, who are dumber than they are! By the time the gang hits the bank vault, it's a safe bet there's going to be organized insanity and disorganized crime!

Director

Jim Kouf Photo
Jim Kouf

Top cast

William Russ Photo
William Russ as Nick Bartkowski
Noah Keen Photo
Noah Keen as Farmer
Dean Norris Photo
Dean Norris as Deputy Joe
Ed O'Neill Photo
Ed O'Neill as George Denver
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
835.51 MB
1280*694
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 38 min
Seeds 3
1.52 GB
1920*1040
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 38 min
Seeds 3

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by roberttcsltd 7 / 10

A Touchstone Classic

This is a well needed return to the past, where they did indeed make better movies.Disorganized Crime is exact as it says, it's an action comedy (that even works good as either).Casting is excellent with everyone giving it their all & fit the characters perfectly. It's also shot very nicely and doesn't look out of place on a big modern TV.Really hope this movie gets the credit it deserves & people get to see this near perfect heist movie with some laughs.This also lead me to another movie directed by the same director (Jim Kouf), Gang Related. GR is an excellent cop thriller with Jim Belushi & Tupac (yes Tupac was an actor too)..check it out.
Reviewed by annmason1

He's from Newark Too!!

I love this movie. Like other reviewers here, I agree it's hard to explain exactly why. But maybe that's the definition of a good film, one that is consistently coherent, that flows together so well one is left with an overall impression rather than remembered bits and pieces.Part of the attractiveness of Disorganized Crime is the setting. To watch it is like taking in gulps of fresh air when you laugh. Which is often.This is a balanced story. No one is good or bad, just assorted characters connected by cross purpose and disjointed competence. Each man does his job very well, and the hilarious thing is that it makes no difference at all. Some things are just not meant to be. No matter how hard the gang or deputies work together or alone, somebody ends up in a pit with a horse skeleton or losing his pants to save his flashlight.Only excellent writing can save broad comedy from slapstick, and the writers certainly have succeeded here. This movie is a pleasure and an antidote for depression. I mean, if these guys can laugh...
Reviewed by a_chinn 4 / 10

Talented cast is wasted in a heist comedy that forgot to be funny

I remember seeing this movie in the video store, but never actually watched it, so when the Kino blu-ray for it went on sale super cheap, I decided to get it, but was sadly disappointed. Despite a solid cast and being written and directed by Jim Kouf, who wrote the funny "Stakeout" and "Rush Hour" along with writing the excellent sci-fi flick "The Hidden" along with being the creator of the excellent TV series "Grimm," this movie really disappoints and ends up being a heist comedy that forgot to be funny. Big city gangsters Fred Gwynne, Lou Diamond Phillips, Rubén Blades, William Russ, and their leader Corbin Bernsen plan to rob a bank in a sleepy Montana town. Of course, things don't go as planned, mainly of which is New Jersey detectives Ed O'Neill and Daniel Roebuck arrest Bernsen before the robbery, leaving his minions to try to pull off the heist without their leader. The Montana setting is charming and unique, but that only goes so far. Gwynne and Blades are the standouts in the film, who manage to bring some level of dry humor to the film, but it's not enough to salvage a disappointing unfunny comedy that I think had the potential to be a sly comedy along the lines of "Midnight Run" or "The Hard Way." Skip this one.
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