Simon Sez is a 1999 action film starring Dennis Rodman, Dane Cook, and John Pinette.[2] The film was directed by Kevin Alyn Elders, and the score was composed by Brian Tyler.

Simon Sez
Film poster
Directed by	Kevin Alyn Elders
Screenplay by	Andrew Lowery Andrew Miller[1]
Story by	Moshe Diamant Rudy Cohen[1]
Produced by	Moshe Diamant Ringo Lam[1]
Starring	Dennis Rodman Dane Cook Ricky Harris John Pinette Filip Nikolic
Cinematography	Avraham Karpick[1]
Edited by	Alain Jakubowicz[1]
Music by	Brian Tyler[1]
Production company	Signature Films[1]
Distributed by	Independent Artists Films (North America) Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (International)
Release date	September 24, 1999 (1999-09-24)
Running time	85 minutes
Country	United States[1]
Budget	$10 million
Box office	$292,152

The film received extremely negative reviews and became a box office bomb.

Premise

Interpol agent Simon goes on a mission in France to save a kidnapped girl and defeat an arms dealer.

Cast

• Dennis Rodman as Simon.
• Dane Cook as Nick Miranda.
• John Pinette as Micro, a fellow cyber-monk
• Ricky Harris as Macro, a fellow cyber-monk
• Filip Nikolic as Michael Gabrielli
• Natalia Cigliuti as Claire Fence
• Jérôme Pradon as Ashton
• Xiong Xin Xin as Xin Xin

Production

In 1998, Variety announced that Ringo Lam would direct Simon Sez with Kevin Elders.[3] Lam later only contributed to the film as a producer.[4]

Release

The film was released in 1999, opening in Los Angeles on September 24 and then in New York on September 25.[1] The film grossed a total of $292,152 on a $10 million budget, making the film a box office bomb.[5]

Reception

On the website Rotten Tomatoes, Simon Sez received a 0% rating, based on 20 reviews, with an average rating of 1.85/10. The website's consensus reads, "Simon Sez no matter how starved you are for something to watch, there has to be a better option than this dreadfully misguided action thriller."[6] The New York Times wrote a scathing review, saying that "its plot seems as if it had been fished out of the wastebaskets of writers who have written scores of better examples of the genre dating at least as far back as Dr. No in 1962," but praising Rodman as "inescapably watchable."[7] Entertainment Weekly gave the film a D− rating referring to the film as "a shoddy mess" and "a bargain-basement rip-off of Ronin and that Rodman was "yesterday's threatening omni-sexual exhibitionist turned today’s overexposed cliché."[8]

References

External links

• Simon Sez at IMDb

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