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The Limey
MEANRANK
71/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2174
- IMDb #2512
- Rotten Tomatoes #1112
- Metacritic #1877
- Letterboxd #1912
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #790
+6 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1872
- Metacritic Critics #1192
- Metacritic Audience #3279
- Kinopoisk #4527
- AlloCiné #3263
- Trakt #4103
Every rating
Split
Lowest is AlloCiné on 62, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 92. Critics average 82, everyone else 67.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →The Limey follows Wilson, a tough English ex-con who travels to Los Angeles to avenge his daughter's death. Upon arrival, Wilson goes to task battling Valentine and an army of L.A.'s toughest criminals, hoping to find clues and piece together what happened. After surviving a near-death beating, getting thrown from a building and being chased down a dangerous mountain road, the Englishman decides to dole out some bodily harm of his own.
Details
- Director
- Steven Soderbergh
- Writer
- Lem Dobbs
- Studio
- Artisan Entertainment
- Released
- 8 October 1999
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 89 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $10.0M
- Box office
- $3.2M
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