Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Sarita Rafferty There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

Cheryl A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

FlashCallahan The daughter of a wealthy businessman has disappeared in Mexico, and all the efforts to find her have been unsuccessful. A psychologist, knowing that the girl has bad luck, persuades her father to send to Mexico one of his employees, an accountant with matching bad luck, to find her. Perhaps he will be lucky, and his bad luck could help to find the lucky girl...During the early nineties, Hollywood had a thing about releasing averagely high concept comedies featuring b-list actors who have appeared in very successful films a few years prior to this, hoping that fans of the more successful films would think 'oooo, I liked him in that film with the more successful actor, let's give this a go'Rarely were the films successful. They made a moderate box office in the states, but here in the UK, Universal video released them under a 'video Premiere' moniker. Which basically meant 'it's good, but it's not good enough to be shown at the cinema'.Other titles like this included The Super, Captain Ron, Clean Slate, and any film with Sinbad in a starring role.These films are in a league of their own, made at a time when studios would give five picture contracts to stars, because they had supporting roles in really successful films, followed by taking the lead role in a surprise sleeper hit.An obscure example is Joe Pesci. He's a fantastic actor, but after the double whammy of Home Alone and My Cousin Vinny, he starred in films that were very out of character for him.Remember the aforementioned The Super, Jimmy Hollywood, With Honors, and Gone Fishin'? Thought not, but the video shop always had a copy of them ready to rent.Pure Luck is nothing more than Short falling over, hurting himself, and thinking he's in charge, whilst Glover plays the straight man and rolling his eyes every now and again.In a luxurious setting. All the 'funny' parts were in the trailer, see Short in a fat suit, see Short fall down some stairs, see Glover stand there and look up to the sky, because his straight man levels out the comedy between them......It's not a terrible film, it's highly watchable.But just a little lazy.

DrPhilmreview Miserable remake of the French comedy "La Chevre". Martin Shorty is a funny guy, but he gets no help here with a director (nadia Tass) who has no experience directing comedy (and has finally found her niche directing "Felicity" and "Samantha" pre-teen girl films) and a writer (Herschel Weingrad) who a long, long time ago wrote "trading Places" (a decent comedy at best) but since has done ham handed comedies like "Brewster's Millions", "Kindergarten Cop" and "Lift".As a result, the teaming of Short and Glover is an annoying failure. Glover's always pretty good at playing annoyance, but here he's in good company as he couldn't possibly be more annoyed than the audience watching.The big scene where Short's character Eugene Proctor gets stung by a bee and swell up to enormous size may have contained the genesis of his later (and much funnier) Jiminy Glick show biz reporter character.

brock-55 This sit-down, family film is definitely something to have among your classics. Ten years after my first viewing of the movie, my family, friends and I occasionally bring up a "What was that movie where..." line. We refer back to pure luck and think how funny it was. The movie is very creative. It is the best portrayal of bad luck I have ever seen. If you have not yet seen this movie, and are looking for something hilarious, fun, imaginative, creative, and that will leave a positive impression on you and your family, than this movie is definitely for you. While reading through the ratings, I encountered some negative ratings. This film is definitely better than those people made it out to be.

kornbwk_13 I have seen several movies in my entire life but this ranks as one of the greatest accomplishments of man kind. Critics rave: "...ri...vet...ing...", "this is one of the best movies (sic) i have ever seen", "...the culmination of hu...man...existence", among others. Step aside Kane, there's a new Citizen in town. The making of this movie is among the things our kids are going to be talking about when they're telling their great grand kids about the events that touched their lives and changed the course of the world forever. It's no "Replacements", but then again, nothing is. Ted and Rob each put one of their thumbs into the air when rating this movie. They say sometimes classics often go unnoticed until they resurface 14 years after being made. With that said, what year did Pure Luck humbly grace this world and what year is it now. Now take the latter year stated and subtract the former from it and see how many years it has been since made. Coincidence... I think not.Best Movies of All Time (Some are debatable) 1. Citizen Kane 2. The Replacements with Keanu Reeves 3. A Clockwork Orange 4. The Sandlot 5. Angels in the Outfield 6. Air Bud: Golden Receiver starring Chester 7. The Godfather 8. Hitch (i've never seen this one, but my friend said it was pretty funny and kinda enjoyable to watch... also if you get sour patch kids at the theatre, probably won't buy it when it comes out on DVD though he said, i would definitely recommend it though) 9. Pure Luck (rounding out the Top 9 finally) 10. Ladybugs starring the late Rodney Dangerfield 11. Japanese Fighters 12. Singing in the Rain 13. A Streetcar Named Desire 14. Saved by the Bell: Hawaiin Style