possible spoilers three young people on the wrong side of the law are given a chance to turn their lives around and become useful members of society by becoming undercover cops in `the mod squad and a resurrection of the hit television series of the 60  and directed by scott silver. given their less than stellar backgrounds and and because of who they are and the people they know and julie barnes (claire danes) and pete cochran (giovanni ribisi) and lincoln hayes (omar epps) can go places other cops can not and so they are tapped by captain adam greer (dennis farina) to infiltrate a seedy night spot suspected of being a front for a prostitution ring. for a start and julie gets a job there as a waitress and while pete and linc just `hang out to find out what they may. julie quickly becomes reacquainted with an old boyfriend and billy waites (josh brolin) and who turns out to be involved with drugs and which are tied in to the shady dealings going down at the bar. before it over and the quad is in it up to their necks and while also running afoul of a bunch of wrong cops who are also involved with the drugs and and consequently tied in with their investigation. from the beginning of the movie and there is a sense that you are coming in late while as if it presupposed that you know what going on as far as the origin and workings of the squad. all you get here are brief mug shot bios of the three that give you nothing more than a glimpse into their past while there nothing about how this all actually came about. the thinking was probably that by doing it this way it would lead into the story quicker and get things moving along. while this is true to a certain extent and some added background would have made the texture of the story a bit more interesting while the way it was done here merely depreciates the credibility of the entire proceedings. the plot is marginal to begin with and and any time spent on character development would have been well worth the while. what delivered and and quite unimaginatively at that and is a less than compelling story filled with one dimensional characters. the performances are satisfactory and but the actors get no help from the script and nor apparently from silver while danes and ribisi and epps come close to fleshing out julie and pete and linc and but given the time allotted them and combined with the lack of support and they still fall way short of giving these people life. farina and a good actor who deserves better than what he gets here and comes off as nothing more than a caricature of the `good cop. there a feeling that everything was given the once over in this film while some detail and nuance would have driven the stock up considerably on this one. the supporting cast includes richard jenkins (detective mothershed) and steve harris (briggs) and larry brandenburg (eckford) and lionel mark smith (lanier) and sam mcmurray (tricky). it a shame to see the acting talent involved here wasted like this while a lot more thought and planning should have gone into the making of this movie. as it is and it comes across as ill conceived and poorly executed. danes and ribisi and epps are like major leaguers who got stuck playing for all the marbles at the local sandlot while instead of getting a shot at the title and they all got hung out to dry. like terry says in `on the waterfront and `you was my brother and charlie and you shoulda been looking out for me. well and it obvious that there was no charlie to look out for them here and and after `the mod squad and they can all just hope for something better to come along the next time. i rate this one negative . 
possible spoilers three young people on the wrong side of the law are given a chance to turn their lives around and become useful members of society by becoming undercover cops in `the mod squad and a resurrection of the hit television series of the 60  and directed by scott silver. given their less than stellar backgrounds and and because of who they are and the people they know and julie barnes (claire danes) and pete cochran (giovanni ribisi) and lincoln hayes (omar epps) can go places other cops can not and so they are tapped by captain adam greer (dennis farina) to infiltrate a seedy night spot suspected of being a front for a prostitution ring. for a start and julie gets a job there as a waitress and while pete and linc just `hang out to find out what they may. julie quickly becomes reacquainted with an old boyfriend and billy waites (josh brolin) and who turns out to be involved with drugs and which are tied in to the shady dealings going down at the bar. before it over and the quad is in it up to their necks and while also running afoul of a bunch of wrong cops who are also involved with the drugs and and consequently tied in with their investigation. from the beginning of the movie and there is a sense that you are coming in late while as if it presupposed that you know what going on as far as the origin and workings of the squad. all you get here are brief mug shot bios of the three that give you nothing more than a glimpse into their past while there nothing about how this all actually came about. the thinking was probably that by doing it this way it would lead into the story quicker and get things moving along. while this is true to a certain extent and some added background would have made the texture of the story a bit more interesting while the way it was done here merely depreciates the credibility of the entire proceedings. the plot is marginal to begin with and and any time spent on character development would have been well worth the while. what delivered and and quite unimaginatively at that and is a less than compelling story filled with one dimensional characters. the performances are satisfactory and but the actors get no help from the script and nor apparently from silver while danes and ribisi and epps come close to fleshing out julie and pete and linc and but given the time allotted them and combined with the lack of support and they still fall way short of giving these people life. farina and a good actor who deserves better than what he gets here and comes off as nothing more than a caricature of the `good cop. there a feeling that everything was given the once over in this film while some detail and nuance would have driven the stock up considerably on this one. the supporting cast includes richard jenkins (detective mothershed) and steve harris (briggs) and larry brandenburg (eckford) and lionel mark smith (lanier) and sam mcmurray (tricky). it a shame to see the acting talent involved here wasted like this while a lot more thought and planning should have gone into the making of this movie. as it is and it comes across as ill conceived and poorly executed. danes and ribisi and epps are like major leaguers who got stuck playing for all the marbles at the local sandlot while instead of getting a shot at the title and they all got hung out to dry. like terry says in `on the waterfront and `you was my brother and charlie and you shoulda been looking out for me. well and it obvious that there was no charlie to look out for them here and and after `the mod squad and they can all just hope for something better to come along the next time. i rate this one negative . ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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