Mean Machine (film)

Mean Machine is a 2001 British comedydrama film directed by Barry Skolnick. It stars former footballer Vinnie Jones. The film is an adaptation of the 1974 American film The Longest Yard, featuring association football rather than American football. It also reunites most of the cast who have starred in the Guy Ritchie blockbusters Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch.

Once inside, he is immediately beaten up by the prison guards for misbehaving, and is subsequently approached by the prison governor. The governor offers Meehan a job as coach of the prison wardens football team not wanting to make enemies with the other prisoners, Meehan declines, and instead offers to train a team consisting of other inmates, who will take on the wardens in a practice match. Meehan then recruits the resident contraband dealer, Massive, as his righthand man, and receives advice from an elderly convict, Doc, who teaches Meehan prison lore and warns Meehan to avoid making mistakes by revealing he was in prison for killing an enemy as well as the enemys wife and child with a grenade. Meehan wins the respect of the other inmates after he attacks an officer, Mr. Ratchett, who is severely beating Massive, and is then occupied with the task of training up his team of cons, including a maximumsecurity con named Monk Jason Statham. Meanwhile, the governor of the prison gets himself into trouble with Barry the Bookie, an unlicensed bookie who was recommended to him by Sykes, the resident prison boss, and decides to try and make back the money he owes by betting on the prison guards team. Doc is killed when Nitro, an unstable inmate and bomb expert, plants a bomb in Meehans locker at the encouragement of Mr. Ratchett. Nitro is subsequently sent to another facility, but not to the minimumsecurity hospital he was promised he is sent to an alternate facility where Ratchett reveals he will be heavily sedated all the time.The match commences shortly after Docs death. At half time, the inmates team, Mean Machine is winning 10, and things are going well until the governor, fearing what will happen if he loses a second bet, attempts to blackmail Meehan into throwing the match. At first he puts his own interests before that of the teams, deliberately playing badly but as the final moments of the game tick down, he redeems himself, bravely using a squareball to fello

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