A selection of excerpts from MetaCritic about the movie (assuming it's ok and legal to post 'em).
There's inexplicable fun, I find, reading reviews that so skilfully and good-humoredly trash the trash.
Every one of these reviews hits the mark.
Yes, I saw this.
Movieline
Stephanie Zacharek
75
There's even a shootout sequence that plays out, from start to finish, while our hero is in flagrante. That's something I don't believe I've ever seen in a movie.
(Just what so many pros and amateurs alike advise: show 'em something they've never seen before! --DonR)
Orlando Sentinel
Roger Moore
63
[Amber] Heard sets herself up as a Megan Fox with talent. And Cage? He delivers. Mock him for his bad choices if you will, but consider this. Who else could have made this work, or would even want to?
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
50
Here is an exercise in deliberate vulgarity, gross excess, and the pornography of violence, not to forget garden variety pornography. You get your money's worth.
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
50
Pure grindhouse, so committed to its own junkiness that it is, in its way, a pleasure to behold.
Empire
Chris Hewitt
40
A shambling, ponderous mess that aims to be a trashy cult classic and merely ends up in the trash....
There's inexplicable fun, I find, reading reviews that so skilfully and good-humoredly trash the trash.
Every one of these reviews hits the mark.
Yes, I saw this.
Movieline
Stephanie Zacharek
75
There's even a shootout sequence that plays out, from start to finish, while our hero is in flagrante. That's something I don't believe I've ever seen in a movie.
(Just what so many pros and amateurs alike advise: show 'em something they've never seen before! --DonR)
Orlando Sentinel
Roger Moore
63
[Amber] Heard sets herself up as a Megan Fox with talent. And Cage? He delivers. Mock him for his bad choices if you will, but consider this. Who else could have made this work, or would even want to?
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
50
Here is an exercise in deliberate vulgarity, gross excess, and the pornography of violence, not to forget garden variety pornography. You get your money's worth.
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
50
Pure grindhouse, so committed to its own junkiness that it is, in its way, a pleasure to behold.
Empire
Chris Hewitt
40
A shambling, ponderous mess that aims to be a trashy cult classic and merely ends up in the trash....
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