The Pest
What kind of freakazoid would let someone hunt him just to collect $50,000?...Next question.
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Action, Comedy
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1997
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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?
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Rated:
PG-13
Runtime:
82 min
Release date:
7 Feb 1997
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$17,000,000
Revenue:
$3,600,000
Awards:
1 nomination
Top Critics Reviews
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,
4 Aug 2009
rotten:
Pic exists solely to showcase Leguizamo's wild and crazy antics, which are very much an acquired taste.
– Joe Leydon,
Variety,
27 Mar 2009
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,
30 Aug 2004
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,
14 Feb 2001
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,
1 Jan 2000