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Bert Kreischer rose to fame as a stand-up comedian known as The Machine, and in his signature set he recounts his true experience with Russian mobsters while on a booze-soaked college trip. Now, 23 years later, that trip has come back to haunt him as he and his estranged father (Mark Hamill) are kidnapped back to Russia by the mob to atone for something they say he did. Together, Bert and his father must retrace the steps of his younger self (Jimmy Tatro) in the midst of a war within a sociopathic crime family, all while attempting to find common ground in their often fraught relationship.

2023 · 1h 52m
Director Peter Atencio

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The Machine

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Bert Kreischer rose to fame as a stand-up comedian known as The Machine, and in his signature set he recounts his true experience with Russian mobsters while on a booze-soaked college trip. Now, 23 years later, that trip has come back to haunt him as he and his estranged father (Mark Hamill) are kidnapped back to Russia by the mob to atone for something they say he did. Together, Bert and his father must retrace the steps of his younger self (Jimmy Tatro) in the midst of a war within a sociopathic crime family, all while attempting to find common ground in their often fraught relationship.

COMMON SENSE

Clumsy action comedy has blood, swearing, drinking, drugs.

TOMATOMETER
Average 4.6
Reviews 26
Fresh 8
Rotten 18

Information

Studio
Legendary Pictures;Uh Hundred Percent
Released
2023
Run Time
1 hr 52 min
Rated
R for strong violence, pervasive language, drug use and some sexual references.
Region of Origin
United States
© 2023 Legendary. All Rights Reserved.

Languages

Original Audio
English, English (United Kingdom), French
Audio

English (AD, Dolby Atmos, ⁨Dolby 5.1⁩, AAC), French (France) (AAC), Spanish (Latin America) (AAC)

Subtitles

English (CC), English (United Kingdom) , English (United States) , Arabic , Bulgarian , Chinese, Simplified , Chinese, Traditional , Czech , Danish , Dutch , Estonian , Finnish , French (France) , German (Germany) , Greek , Hebrew , Hungarian , Italian (Italy) , Japanese (Japan) , Latvian , Lithuanian , Norwegian , Polish , Portuguese (Brazil) , Portuguese (Portugal) , Russian , Slovak , Slovenian , Spanish (Latin America) , Spanish (Spain) , Swedish , Thai , Turkish , Ukrainian , Vietnamese

Accessibility

Closed captions (CC) refer to subtitles in the available language with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.
Audio descriptions (AD) refer to a narration track describing what is happening on screen, to provide context for those who are blind or have low vision.