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The Machine: A Theatrical Experience With Bert Kreischer Live

  • Rated R
  • 2hr 22m
  •  (7)
  • 37

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Movie Info & Cast

Director:

Peter Atencio

Release Date:

May 25, 2023

Runtime:

2hr 22m

Synopsis

Set 23 years after the original story which inspired it, The Machine finds Bert (Bert Kreischer) facing familial crisis and the arrival of his estranged father (Mark Hamill) when the ghost of his booze-soaked past arrives: a murderous mobster (Iva Babic) hellbent on kidnapping Bert back to the motherland to atone for his crimes. Together, he and his father must retrace the steps of his younger self (Jimmy Tatro) in the midst of a war between a sociopathic crime family while they attempt to find common ground.

Cast

  • Mark Hamill
  • Jimmy Tatro
  • Stephanie Kurtzuba
  • Iva Babic
  • Bert Kreischer
  • Robert Maaser
  • Jessica Gabor
  • Rita Bernard Shaw
  • Nikola Ðuricko
  • Oleg Taktarov

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He’s the machine!!!

SM
Spencer M
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What a great job for his movie. Bert was fantastic. Everything was great about the movie and story. Very well told.

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Metacritic

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Based on 7 Critics
4.8

USER SCORE (30)

Mixed or average reviews based on 30 Reviews
50
May 26, 2023

Writers Kevin Biegel and Scotty Landes adapt Kreischer’s unbelievable viral story about robbing a train with Russian mobsters into a retrospective on the comedian’s tumultuous history with excess—a tonal misfire of fantastical absurdity clashing against emotional confessions.

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Matt Donato
Paste Magazine
42
May 26, 2023

The Machine really goes off the rails when it tries to turn itself into an action movie. The blandly violent fight sequences are only watchable because Hamill gets the occasional opportunity to show off his dorky-dad-on-cocaine schtick between punches.

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Christian Zilko
IndieWire
50
May 26, 2023

Hamill, however, is the MVP, continuing to deliver some of his best work as an older man. When he leaves the action for a spell, the energy leaves the movie.

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Luke Y. Thompson
The A.V. Club
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