Homefront
Open Road Films | Release Date: November 27, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
40
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Mixed or average reviews based on 35 Critic Reviews
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4
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20
Negative:
11
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
67
The PlaylistGabe ToroNov 26, 2013
Ultimately of course, this is Statham’s show, and as always he doesn’t disappoint. Read full review
63
Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaNov 27, 2013
Luckily, Statham is up to the task. Which is a surprise, because he's never, ever done anything like this before. Read full review
63
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliNov 27, 2013
A few months from now, no one will remember it, but Homefront isn't made for the long-haul. It's assembled simply for the 100 minutes when the viewer is in theater and, on a certain level, that's sufficient. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comSteven BooneNov 27, 2013
Sylvester Stallone can write entertaining formula action scripts like a demon, but he often hands them over to hack directors who don't know how to extract the pulp and the juice from them. On that score, Homefront is better than average. Read full review
60
The GuardianMike McCahillDec 9, 2013
[Jason Statham] has some nice, relaxed moments with onscreen daughter Izabela Vidovic, and gets to fulfil half his audience's fantasies in wiping the smirk from James Franco's face. Read full review
60
The TelegraphTim RobeyDec 5, 2013
This meat-and-potatoes B-thriller stays modest and grounded: compared with the noisy excesses of higher-budgeted action flicks, it has a kind of crude integrity. Read full review
60
The New York TimesManohla DargisNov 26, 2013
The movie is as blunt an instrument as the poster, but it’s also crammed with enough moving parts and unexpected distractions (Winona Ryder as a “meth whore”) to make it an indefensibly enjoyable piece of exploitation hackwork. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesAnnlee EllingsonNov 26, 2013
[A] contemporary B-movie Western with designs on stylistic flair. Read full review
50
ObserverRex ReedNov 27, 2013
Statham and Franco, both well-known sleepwalkers on camera, seem more animated than usual. Suspend belief, and you’ll find Homefront predictable but entertaining. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleLouis BlackNov 27, 2013
The film is mostly predictable, but throws a few curveballs and ends up being surprisingly entertaining, if not at all outstanding. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam LaceyNov 27, 2013
The new Jason Statham movie Homefront aims to be retro, greasy comfort food but despite its lowly ambitions, there’s barely enough spice here to merit a decent burp. Read full review
50
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanNov 27, 2013
Isn’t Statham’s best — or most brutal — work, but it’s not bad. Read full review
50
The DissolveNathan RabinNov 27, 2013
At its core, Homefront is thoroughly generic, a grim exercise in formula whose action sequences are edited into a frenetic, incoherent blur, especially the awful opening setpiece. Read full review
50
New York PostKyle SmithNov 26, 2013
Despite being named “Gator Bodine,” Franco seems like something Statham would scrape off his boots. Put it this way: Franco needs a baseball bat to be intimidating; Statham just needs to be Statham. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleNov 26, 2013
Homefront has craft and humor behind it, but not much in the way of inspiration. Think of a dessert with lots of calories and no nutrition. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperNov 25, 2013
This is a well-made thriller traveling over awfully familiar turf. Read full review
45
Film.comJordan HoffmanNov 25, 2013
Only completists need check in with Homefront. The rest of us can just stay home. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyNov 27, 2013
The basic ingredients of a throwback action movie are all there; what’s missing is action and style. Read full review
40
Total FilmMatt GlasbyDec 9, 2013
An unfathomably airless B-movie that betrays its USP by spreading the thrills too thinly. You can see why Stallone had second thoughts. Read full review
40
EmpireDavid HughesDec 2, 2013
Another shake-and-bake Stath special, boasting the requisite punchy-fighty action and some pleasing sleaziness from Franco and Bosworth, but it's ponderously handled by director Fleder. Read full review
40
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottNov 27, 2013
The violence in Homefront is violence purely for entertainment's sake. Read full review
40
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriNov 27, 2013
A thoroughly boilerplate bayou actioner, with one notable feature. It’s got good villains – nasty, delirious, stupid villains, among them Franco and Ryder – and for that it’s almost worth seeing. Almost. Read full review
40
Time OutJoshua RothkopfNov 26, 2013
Why introduce two female characters — played by Kate Bosworth and Winona Ryder, both excelling at trashy desperation — if the script’s ultimately going to forget them? The worst sin is visited upon Statham: Sure, those fists fly, but his poetry has become a chopped-up hash. Read full review
40
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzNov 26, 2013
Statham is always good as the silent butt-kicking type and is fine here. Franco, as is often the case, seems to be acting in his own private movie and having a grand old time doing so; results for the audience may vary. Bosworth is good, scary skinny and wired for trouble as a menacing mom. Read full review
38
Boston GlobeTom RussoNov 27, 2013
Boston University product Gary Fleder (“Kiss the Girls”) directs the action with grungy efficiency, and the movie does hook us with a certain lurid anticipation of just how far things might escalate. Read full review
38
USA TodayScott BowlesNov 26, 2013
Homefront is what "Breaking Bad" may have resembled had Sylvester Stallone written the TV show. Read full review
38
Miami HeraldRene RodriguezNov 26, 2013
Homefront is done in by uninspired action scenes in which Statham’s athletic prowess is rendered unwatchable by hyper-editing, a shameful reliance on child-in-peril cliches to move the story forward, and so many loose ends that you wonder if 20 minutes were accidentally cut out from the movie. Read full review
38
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsNov 26, 2013
Line to line, Stallone has a particularly numbing penchant for the f-word. But the key f-word in Homefront is "familiar." Read full review
38
McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreNov 26, 2013
The Jason Statham vehicle Homefront is such a generic tough-guy-against-the-odds ’80s style actioner that you’d swear Sly Stallone starred in it. He did, back in the day. Or versions of it. This one, Stallone just scripted. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineAbhimanyu DasNov 23, 2013
The material plays out like a particularly busy episode of Sons of Anarchy, possessing a peculiar joylessness that's anathema to the success of films like this. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyNov 21, 2013
Homefront is sufficiently silly and low-down to be entertaining on a certain marginal level, but it wouldn't appear that those involved, with the possible exception of Franco, approached this with the idea that they might be making good trash; it looks too elaborate and costly for that and the script exhibits no self-aware humor. Read full review
30
VarietyScott FoundasNov 21, 2013
What sounds like a veritable B-movie wet dream — with that master of the subzero scowl, Jason Statham, starring in a screenplay written by Sylvester Stallone — turns out to be considerably less than the sum of its parts. Read full review
25
Rolling StonePeter TraversNov 27, 2013
It could have been crazy-good trash. Read full review
20
Village VoiceAmy NicholsonNov 26, 2013
Director Gary Fleder seems to sometimes suspect Homefront could pass as comedy. Read full review
20
New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierNov 26, 2013
A disappointing mess of a genre flick. Read full review
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