Hit and Run
Open Road Films (II) | Release Date: August 22, 2012 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
50
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Mixed or average reviews based on 31 Critic Reviews
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11
Mixed:
13
Negative:
7
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
88
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertAug 22, 2012
There's a lot of funny stuff, but the most unexpected comes from Arnold, who has been uneven, to say the least, in his movies. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanAug 22, 2012
The dialogue veers into digressions about ADHD, the cruddiness of mainstream dog food, and much else. That these asides prove more fun than the central action is what gives Hit & Run its flavor: tasty at times, even if the film evaporates as you watch it. Read full review
75
Portland OregonianShawn LevyAug 21, 2012
Spirited and saucy, Hit and Run is a small movie with big spirit, a Tarantino-ish sensibility, and a scattergun ethos that results in more hits than misses. Read full review
75
USA TodayClaudia PuigAug 21, 2012
This fun-loving genre-bender, inspired by "Smokey and the Bandit," opens languidly, then picks up the pace. Even in the midst of cars racing, it's funny and endearing. Read full review
70
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzAug 20, 2012
Just slam the pedal to the floor, blast on past the weaknesses in the plot, and enjoy the ride. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeAug 20, 2012
Its high-octane but low-stakes action might be just the thing for moviegoers weary of summer's operatic superheroes. Read full review
70
VarietyPeter DebrugeAug 20, 2012
Above all, real-life couple Shepard and Bell bring genuine chemistry to this high-energy excursion. Read full review
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenAug 23, 2012
It's a rom-com, it's a road movie, it's "Cars" without the animation, it's "A History of Violence" played for yuks. It's all that and less because, really, Hit & Run is awfully hit & miss. Read full review
63
Miami HeraldRene RodriguezAug 23, 2012
Everyone in Hit and Run is clearly having a good time. It's the audience that gets left out of the fun. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeMark FeeneyAug 22, 2012
Put Christian Bale behind the wheel, and Hit & Run would make a billion bucks - except then there'd be no room for Shepard, and that movie would hardly be worth watching. Read full review
63
St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsAug 21, 2012
Hit and Run isn't a catastrophe, but it leaves loose ends and a more adventurous map by the side of the winding road. Read full review
60
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriAug 23, 2012
Hit and Run works less as a film and more as a likable, semi-documentary romp among friends. The illusion of the drama may be gone, but it's been replaced by something more authentic and adorable. And we might be okay with that. Read full review
60
Boxoffice MagazinePete HammondAug 22, 2012
One of the summer's great escapes - no mean feat in a year that has attempted, but failed, to provide fun, mindless, movie fare. Read full review
60
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottAug 22, 2012
Hit and Run achieves its chief goal: to put the pedal to the metal for some good, goofy fun, squealing the tires as often as possible along the way. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesBetsy SharkeyAug 21, 2012
A strange, but strangely entertaining combo of drag racing machismo, slapstick silliness, raunchy riffs, politically incorrect rants and sweet nothings. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubKeith PhippsAug 22, 2012
There really ought to be a lot more movies like Hit & Run, but only if they're just a little bit better. Read full review
50
New York PostLou LumenickAug 23, 2012
Burt Reynolds and Sally Field they're not, but you could do worse for mindless late-summer entertainment than Dax Shepard and Kristen Bell in Hit & Run. Read full review
50
Rolling StonePeter TraversAug 23, 2012
This slapstick road movie feels tossed off by people on a raunchy bender. I mean that as a good thing. The trouble with Hit & Run is that it can't sustain its trippy effervescence. Read full review
50
The PlaylistGabe ToroAug 22, 2012
What dooms Hit and Run, which, charitably, is not as generic as it's name implies, is that the film itself comments on its own sincerity. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChroniclePeter HartlaubAug 21, 2012
Pretty much everything shot by Shepard and co-director David Palmer looks as if it was done in one take. Hit & Run is closest in tone to the Tarantino-penned "True Romance," but it lacks that movie's menace. Read full review
50
The New York TimesStephen HoldenAug 21, 2012
The movie feels like a grown-up version of little boys making whooshing noises and staging collisions while playing with toys on a living room floor. It belongs to the same star-and-his-pals-cutting-up genre as the lesser comedies by Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack. Read full review
45
MovielineAnika ChapinAug 22, 2012
One senses that the movie doesn't quite have the chutzpah to be what it wants to be - a "Fast and Furious"-like sequence of balletic car chases - so it periodically halts to wedge in some romance. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovAug 22, 2012
A bizarre mélange of earnest and romantic road movie, high-octane chase picture reminiscent of everything the mustachioed version of Burt Reynolds ever did, and a slapsticky comedy that gives Tom Arnold considerably more screen time than actually necessary. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierAug 22, 2012
Sadly, Hit & Run, for as much sporadic fun and genuine heart it has, runs out of gas. But it's not for lack of trying, and that counts for something. Read full review
38
Washington PostStephanie MerryAug 22, 2012
There's only so much an actor can do with lifeless dialogue. It's hard to blame the cast for looking less than committed; they all realized too late that Shepard created a monster. Read full review
38
Philadelphia InquirerDavid HiltbrandAug 22, 2012
Hit & Run is a pleasant enough diversion - but more of the PPV persuasion. Read full review
38
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsAug 21, 2012
Hit & Run is pretty rancid as comedy. Worse, the chases are strictly amateur hour, all shortcut editing and no gut satisfaction. Read full review
38
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliAug 21, 2012
A slow, meandering misfire of a movie. Read full review
30
Village VoiceNick PinkertonAug 21, 2012
That even the criminal class has gone sensitive and finicky eco-conscious has some potential for comedy-or drama, as in Oliver Stone's undervalued Savages-but there's no single detail that might convince a viewer that the characters played by Dax Shepard and Bradley Cooper might ever have been compelled to steal for a living, and this alienates the crime picture from any social context or sense of actual danger, making it essentially a celebrity goof-off. Read full review
25
Slant MagazineZachary WigonAug 19, 2012
Far more frustrating than the film's banally conventional plot structure is its characters' lack of depth. Read full review
20
Time OutKeith UhlichAug 21, 2012
Interminable scenes of macho posturing and mock-Tarantino dialogue (including a lengthy dissection of the word fags!) mark time between a number of ineptly staged car chases that would embarrass the makers of "Cannonball Run II." Read full review
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