Jackpot!
Amazon Prime Video | Release Date (Streaming): August 15, 2024 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 21 Critic Reviews
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3
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11
Negative:
7
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We Got This CoveredMarco Vito OddoAug 14, 2024
Jackpot! delivers a delicious deranged mix of dark comedy and thrill ride. While its silliness may not appeal to all, the film's clever premise, strong performances by Awkwafina and John Cena, and well-timed humor make for a great experience. Read full review
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The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckAug 15, 2024
It’s all tremendously silly but somehow it works, thanks to combat choreography that would make Jackie Chan proud and the introduction of America’s premiere new comedy team, Awkwafina and John Cena. Read full review
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Paste MagazineJesse HassengerAug 14, 2024
At his heart, Feig isn’t really a satirist – or an action director, despite his repeated efforts. He still makes a convincing underdog, though, fighting his way through misbegotten genre that shouldn’t work here nearly as well as it does. Read full review
60
IGNJuan BarquinAug 15, 2024
Paul Feig’s Jackpot! may not know what it wants to be – riotous comedy, sincere drama, or sprawling action film – but its breakout supporting players elevate it from pure mediocrity to moderately entertaining. Read full review
60
EmpireJohn NugentAug 15, 2024
Paul Feig is mostly back on form with a likeable, frantic, murderous, madcap money-grab of a high-concept comedy. It could be funnier, but it rarely stops for breath. Read full review
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VarietyPeter DebrugeAug 15, 2024
Fitting neatly between “The Heat” and 2016’s “Ghostbusters” reboot, Jackpot! finds the dapper director squarely in his comfort zone, falling back on some of the tricks that worked so well in “Bridesmaids,” minus the underlying relatability of that film’s brilliant screenplay. Read full review
60
NMENick LevineAug 15, 2024
Awkwafina’s deadpan drollery dovetails neatly with Cena’s golden retriever energy and the climactic set-piece is genuinely exciting. Read full review
60
Total FilmLauren MilesAug 14, 2024
John Cena’s a joy to watch, but Paul Feig’s latest isn’t quite on the money. Read full review
55
TheWrapElizabeth WeitzmanSep 9, 2024
Interestingly, it’s Cena — and co-lead Awkwafina — who give the two-dimensional structure some three-dimensional heft. But they have to work pretty hard to bust out of its repetitive cycle of low-stakes comic violence. Read full review
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The Associated PressJake CoyleAug 15, 2024
Mostly, Jackpot! is an action-comedy vehicle that pairs Awkwafina and John Cena for a romp through a few clever economic inequality gags and a lot of cartoonish mayhem. Read full review
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The Seattle TimesMoira MacdonaldAug 15, 2024
Awkwafina and Cena, who gamely tolerate everything this movie throws at them, deserve better. Would somebody please make them a smart rom-com, soon? Read full review
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The New York TimesAlissa WilkinsonAug 15, 2024
Directed by Paul Feig from a screenplay by Rob Yescombe, the movie sustains an admirably zany energy, though its jokes often feel underwritten. (“You can’t just steal people’s panic rooms. What are you, Jodie Foster?”) Worse, though, it seems intent on mixing its metaphors. Read full review
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The Observer (UK)Wendy IdeAug 20, 2024
Enthusiastic mugging and gurning from the cast can’t hide a feeble, flailing screenplay that clings to its single idea like a lifebelt. Read full review
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The GuardianAdrian HortonAug 14, 2024
Despite the action-comedy bona fides of director Paul Feig, helmer of the far more entertaining Bridesmaids and Spy, and the comedic chops of Awkwafina and John Cena, Jackpot! is an unsteady balance of dark and light, a tinny and discordant mishmash of stunts, ridiculous characters, ludicrous stakes and attempts at zeitgeist. Read full review
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RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoAug 14, 2024
Merely being violent and unpredictable does not make a film like Jackpot funny. Therein lies the biggest problem here: the laughs don’t come nearly to the degree required to make the complete lack of morality or interesting characters palatable. Read full review
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The PlaylistCharles BarfieldAug 15, 2024
For as many laughs as they’re trying to get, only about half of them land. All told, Jackpot is an action comedy that is light on laughs and heavy on repetitive droning fights. Jackpot even fails as a social commentary. Read full review
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Movie NationRoger MooreAug 19, 2024
Bad one-liners, performers straining to find a laugh, Awkwafina making one question why stardom ever came her way, and even John Cena is at a loss about what to do to make this abortion of an action comedy show a pulse. Read full review
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San Francisco ChronicleCarla MeyerAug 14, 2024
Jackpot! involves a fight to the finish between the abundant charisma and likability of leads Awkwafina and John Cena and the impossible material they were given. The actors lose, because nobody could survive so many jokes based on groin kicks and bathroom humor or a movie premise as lacking in context as it is sky-high in concept. Read full review
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ObserverEmily ZemlerAug 14, 2024
Despite the cast and the director’s best efforts, this is a movie that so desperately wants to be edgy that it somehow becomes completely dull. Read full review
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New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriAug 15, 2024
The real problem with Jackpot! (aside from the inept direction, the unfunny script, and the irritating characters) is that the whole film indulges in a kind of misanthropy that would require a lot more thought and ballsiness to pull off. Read full review
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ColliderRobert Brian TaylorAug 14, 2024
The movie might be called Jackpot!, but no one is leaving this one a winner. Read full review
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