Freelance
Relativity Media | Release Date: October 27, 2023 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 13 Critic Reviews
Positive:
0
Mixed:
4
Negative:
9
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
The GuardianLeslie FelperinJun 24, 2024
The package as a whole, with its sun-bleached palette and colour correction that makes its blues pop, is reasonably entertaining, perfectly suited to watching on an airplane while flying to your next holiday destination. Read full review
40
Film ThreatAlan NgNov 7, 2023
It just feels like a movie that was made because Cena and Brie agreed to star in it. Read full review
40
IGNMatt DonatoOct 26, 2023
Pierre Morel's uninspired work behind the camera goes hand in hand with the film’s nondescript title, dragging viewers through a moodless, toothless action hybrid that, at its best, plays as forgettably inept even with ammunition flying in all directions. Read full review
40
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzOct 26, 2023
Too tame in its violence to be thrilling, too flat in its gags to be funny, and too PG-minded to be genuinely sexy, Morel’s film arrives and exits like a mild breeze – totally and utterly forgettable. John Cena deserves better. And so do we. Read full review
38
St. Louis Post-DispatchKatie WalshOct 27, 2023
Freelance is this incredibly goofy jumble of tones, a movie that doesn’t know what it is or what it wants to be, flailing about as it far overstays its welcome. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterAngie HanNov 13, 2023
Freelance fails to deliver on every front. Worse, it barely seems to try. Read full review
25
Movie NationRoger MooreOct 28, 2023
Raba is a hoot, and even if Csokas isn’t in the bloom of brawling, villainous youth, he gives fair value and he and Brie and Raba and even Cena show commitment to their parts in all this far beyond what this nonsense deserved. Read full review
25
ColliderRoss BonaimeOct 27, 2023
Freelance, like Cena’s Mason, wants to be something more, but maybe it should’ve settled for something a little more simplistic and straightforward and found the joy in that. Read full review
25
Original-CinChris KnightOct 27, 2023
Zero “rom” and very little “com.” The action sequences are perhaps the best parts of the film. Director Pierre Morel sure knows how to crash a helicopter! But there’s only so many times you can watch Cena shoot, fight or drive his way out of danger. Read full review
25
Slant MagazineDerek SmithOct 26, 2023
By its conclusion, what we’re left with is a cinematic Frankenstein, whose disparate genre elements have been cobbled together without much consideration or fuss. Read full review
20
The Irish TimesDonald ClarkeJan 2, 2024
You would get more sparks from rubbing a wet flannel with a wetter rock. But try it anyway. It could hardly be more tedious than waiting for Freelance to crawl to its predictable denouement. Read full review
20
The GuardianCath ClarkeDec 26, 2023
Brie and Cena look lifeless and blank-faced; they’ve got no chemistry, and the objectionable dynamics of him manfully rescuing her shrieking from the clutches of the bad guys on repeat feel like a satire of the genre – which this isn’t. Read full review
12
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoOct 27, 2023
The most impressive thing about Pierre Morel’s film is how it takes two actors as generally likable as John Cena and Alison Brie and makes them such bland avatars for actual people that they fade into the dull background of action-comedy noise this “movie” tries to achieve. Read full review
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