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
Mixed:
11
Negative:
7
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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
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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
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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
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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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