Rotten
It seems to be targeted at eight-year-old boys with attention-deficit disorder, and could have been more competently made by any one of them.
Keith Phipps, AV Club
The Pest
What kind of freakazoid would let someone hunt him just to collect $50,000?...Next question.
1997 · 1h 22m · PG-13
Action, Comedy
Directed by
Paul Miller
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The Pest
Overview
Fast-talking Latino con artist Pestario "Pest" Vargas is the target of Scottish mobsters to whom he owes a considerable debt. Willing to do anything to raise money and avoid severe injury or death, Vargas agrees to a very unusual job -- he will be transported to a remote island and hunted by Gustav Shank, a racist German executive. If he can survive a full day and night, Vargas gets $50,000 and will be set free. Is he wily enough to elude Shank?
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
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4%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Pic exists solely to showcase Leguizamo's wild and crazy antics, which are very much an acquired taste.
Joe Leydon, Variety
Rotten
When Mr. Leguizamo isn't doing third-rate ethnic parody, he is wallowing in scatological jokes that are so poorly prepared and executed that they make similar antics by Mr. Carrey play like classic routines.
Stephen Holden, New York Times
Rotten
Talented and versatile actor-comedian John Leguizamo indulges himself so totally with incessant mugging, mimicking and all-around showing off that he begins to wear out his welcome before the opening credit sequence is over.
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
Fresh
This film is utterly without discipline or focus in a way that -- to one's shame --one eventually finds oddly endearing.
Jeff Millar, Houston Chronicle
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