Freebie And The Bean | Full Movie | Movies Anywhere

The movie is such a hopeless confusion of styles and tones and wasted effort and undirected energy that it requires a great deal more than good performances to save it.

The most schizoid film recipe of current memory. It is as if several different cooks had tried to poison the broth.

Too often, producer-director Richard Rush startles us with injected scenes of violence that quickly turn comedic happenings into scenes of dismaying grimness.

Neither screen writer Robert Kaufman nor director Richard Rush could decide if "Freebie and the Bean" was to be a comedy or a blood-and-guts melodrama. For every guffaw there is an equal and opposite scene of someone being shot clubbed or maimed.

One of the most reprehensible film-yarns ever to subvert the original designs of the Keystone Kops. Also, it is, at moments, a talented and hilarious movie, which simply confounds the muddle.