David O'Hara, Drea de Matteo, Famke Janssen

The Story of Made features Bobby (Jon Favreau) and Ricky (Vince Vaughn), two aspiring boxers with limited mob connections. Given the opportunity to handle a job for L.A. mob boss Max (Peter Falk), Bob...( read more  read more... )by and Ricky find themselves in New York where they take part in a low-level money-laundering scheme. Without a moment of rest, the two men embark on an adventure that has them enjoying the robust nightlife and interfacing with the underbelly of the New York wannabe crime world.

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R, 1 hr. 35 min.

Directed by: Jon Favreau

Release Date: July 13, 2001

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  • September 25, 2009
    Not the best, Swingers 2 it aint!
  • April 24, 2009
    Always love Vaughn and Favreau together cuz Swingers was the SHIT bitches!

    Been on my list forever, finally got around to checking this bad boy out. It was about what I expected...nothing too memorable, but enough comedy to fill up your time and put a smile on yo face.

    Favreau...( read more) was a little flat to me here...I know a lot of it was his character (straight) against Vaughn (nutjob)...but still he kinda bored me.

    Also, the ending was entirely unexpected. That is all
  • May 21, 2008
    Jon Favreau has become one of the most promising directors in all of Hollywood. In films like Elf, Iron Man, and Zathura - he provides entertainment to a wide array of age groups, never once mistaking the audience for mindless idiots. They show so much more heart, class, and char...( read more)m then your typical Hollywood fare. But, before all those modern family classics, there was Made.

    I've had Made on DVD for a few years now and never got around to watching it. It came packaged with Swingers, which is one of my favorite comedies... and although I was excited to see Favreau and Vaughn reprise similar roles to Swingers, the crime thriller to me is very predictable and uninteresting. After watching this I can say I should have watched it a lot sooner because at times it was an absolute blast, but I also feel that it's shortcomings were all to blame on, as expected, the crime aspect.

    Favreau and Vaughn play similar roles to their characters in Swingers. Favreau is the "straight" guy of the pair - he's more compassionate, has good intentions, and takes the job very seriously. Vaughn, on the other hand, is the more reckless of the two... to the point where you think he's just a miserable human being. A lot of people hated the character and thought he was too much of a jerk, but I thought he was hilarious and a blast to watch.

    All the stuff before the characters head to New York is great, and so are all the scenes early on in the hotel room. The heart of the movie IS the interaction between Ricky and Bobby, and whenever the dialogue is the focal point of the scene it's great entertainment. However, when the plot ventures out a bit too far, especially in the third act, it loses all it's charm and becomes "just another crime movie". You've never seen a movie that could be so entertaining one minute, and so flat the next.

    Sean Combs was surprisingly very good in this... I had absolutely no expectations for his performance, but he showed confidence and had good delivery for all of his lines. He was able to hang in well with Vaughn and Favreau, whom are both great. Vaughn is especially wonderful, I feel he's certainly he's one of the most underrated and underutilized talents in Hollywood.

    I can't say I didn't enjoy Made, and it's certainly not a bad movie... but, I think it tries to hard to be what it can't be. The crime scenes seem so uninspired and lame, and even some scenes involving Favreau and his wife were powerful, yet completely out of place. Really, there was three movies in one.

    Swingers is much better, but this is worth seeing just for the wonderful on-screen chemistry between Vaughn and Favreau.
  • February 7, 2008
    Ricky Slade: Here's what I'm gonna ask of you... We're going to be spending the night in New York, so it worked out well for all of us. I want you to take it back to the business class, I want you to round up a couple of honeys... At our hotel room we're gonna have kind of a pool...( read more) party. A California gangster-style, you know what I mean? Kick ass pool party thing.

    The team from Swingers return with a mob comedy. Two guys are working odd jobs for a mobster, including boxing and body guarding, and are eventually sent to from LA to New York to help out on a deal.

    Ricky Slade: Did you just let the SCREECH in the fucking club?

    The movie is mainly about hilarious rants that Vince Vaughn gets into, between this movie and Swingers Vaughn is at his best. Besides Vaughn, everyone else is also good. Peter "Columbo" Falk is hilarious as the west coast mob boss, while P Diddy is also surprisingly very funny as the east coast mobster, when dealing with Vaughn.

    Ricky Slade: We need guns.
    Bobby: We don't need guns.
    Ricky Slade: I'm telling you man, I'm pretty sure we need guns.
    Bobby: I listened to them and they specifically said we don't need guns.
    Ricky Slade: That's all the more reason why you do need a gun.
    Bobby: You couldn't even get a gun.
    Ricky Slade: You wanna bet, you wanna bet me if I could get a gun?
    Bobby: You couldn't get a handjob from the bridge and tunnel posse.

    Jon Favreau makes good work of writing, directing, and starring along with Vaughn and playing it as the straight man, who like the rest of us, just need Vince to shut up for a second.

    The plot is fine, works well enough as basically the breaks between the bantering between Vaughn and Favreau, as is the soundtrack which fits well with the club scene that these guys inhabit for a lot of the movie.

    This is a very funny follow up to go along with Swingers.

    Ricky Slade: You must be the 'Red Dragon'!
  • December 13, 2007
    I love watching crap movies, because I can have the best bitch about them afterwards. I'm about to have a phenomenal one right now.

    Vince Vaughn a.k.a the loud - mouthed, stereotyped guy who's going prematurely bald is as irritating as ever alongside co - star Jon Favreau a.k.a ...( read more)the guy who looks disturbingly like his inane co - star. The plot is so thin not even Jesus himself could have taken a stroll on it without falling through. On the light side, P. Diddy is surprisingly good.

    Possibly the worst part of made is the part that does not, as far as I could assess, exist. I mean, it's not that it has too much of anything. It's more like the absence of anything. What the movie lacks is substance itself.

    If you are male, I'm sure you'll have more fun tying a 5 kg weight to your balls. If you're female ... well, I'm sure you'll think of something. Avoid, if this means anything to you.
  • October 18, 2009
    Funnier then I expected
  • October 2, 2009
    wow umn just seen this movie 4 the 1st time n think that this is a good movie 2 watch....its got a good cast of actors/actressess throughout this movie.....i think that david o hara, dera de matteo, famke janseen, jonathan silverman, jon favreau, jenteal, p. diddy, peter falk, pu...( read more)ff daddy play good roles/parts throughout this movie....i think that the director of this light-hearted comedy/drama movie had done a good job of directing this movie because you never know what 2 expect throughout this movie....this is such a good movie 2 watch its really enjoyable n its a good movie
  • September 30, 2009
    not interested at all, and why is some rap 'artist' listed 3 times in the list of starring actors?
  • August 7, 2009
    Vince Vaughn plays one of the most annoying characters ever.
  • August 7, 2009
    some of these scenes that Jon Favreau wrote are just pure comedy gold. im not saying hes a genius, (he took the offer to direct Iron-man) but Vince Vaughn and himself should go down as one of the best comedy duos of all time. (see swingers)

Critic Reviews


July 27, 2001
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

The comic invention at work here -- Vaughn's and Favreau's -- make Made into a rough gem. full review

July 20, 2001
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

The kind of crime comedy that you root for even as it grows progressively more irritating. full review

July 20, 2001
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

The movie is difficult to describe because it's not what happens that matters, it's how it happens and why. full review

July 20, 2001
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com

Vaughn and Favreau almost always give us something to watch. full review

July 19, 2001
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer

Favreau and Vaughn have chemistry to kill: comic, combative and engagingly goofball. full review

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