Good People
Millennium Entertainment | Release Date: September 26, 2014 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
42
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 11 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
7
Negative:
2
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63
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliSep 26, 2014
There's probably enough content here to warrant a three-hour movie but Good People is only 90 minutes long. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comGlenn KennySep 26, 2014
It could be that Franco and Hudson, while not phoning it in, bring personae that are just too familiar/conventional to spark a high level of viewer involvement. Read full review
50
VarietyGuy LodgeSep 28, 2014
Both stars are in agreeable if uncharacteristically muted form, doing little to distinguish Genz’s pic from any amount of formula-following filler in the same B-movie ballpark. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckSep 24, 2014
Good People follows a familiar thriller template without managing to be particularly compelling. Read full review
50
ObserverRex ReedSep 24, 2014
James Franco again, more subdued and less hokey than usual, this time in something called Good People, the kind of routine thriller they used to show on Thursday and Friday nights before the big Saturday double features, back in the good old studio years when the marquees changed every two days. Read full review
50
McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreSep 24, 2014
Danish director Henrik Ruben Genz (“Terribly Happy”) can’t hide his cards and rarely even tries to. He’s stuck with a script that has “Promise you won’t kill us,” maybe the silliest line ever uttered to a murderer, but that features some dandy threats, some by the villain who doesn’t drive the Jaguar. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloSep 25, 2014
Good People might have been better titled "Dumb People", or at least "People Who Have Never Seen A Movie In Their Entire Lives." Read full review
40
EmpireDavid HughesAug 19, 2015
Tom and Anna are so thinly sketched that by the time the painfully slow set-up starts to pay off, we no longer care who does what to whom, or why. Read full review
40
The DissolveJen ChaneySep 23, 2014
What transpires in this adequately acted, uninventive film fails to add any fresh twists to the cash-vs.-conscience formula. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineTomas HachardSep 22, 2014
It only overcomes its deficiencies and gains a modicum of entertainment value precisely when it commits to its illogical storylines and exaggerated plot twists. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinOct 2, 2014
Good People goes from being simply pedestrian to outright preposterous without batting an eye. Read full review
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