Kill Switch
Saban Films | Release Date: June 16, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
31
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 8 Critic Reviews
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1
Mixed:
3
Negative:
4
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Paste MagazineAndrew CrumpJun 15, 2017
Granted, the film might not have turned out much better had Smit stuck with one perspective or the other, but at least it would have had constancy. Instead, it reads strictly as a video game, sans the requisite interactive gratification. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comSimon AbramsJun 16, 2017
Indie sci-fi film Kill Switch is the worst kind of science-fiction film: the kind that coasts on a central gimmick instead of delivering either visceral or intellectual thrills. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineChristopher GrayJun 11, 2017
Dan Stevens navigates the film’s literal and thematic alleyways with the same enthusiastic befuddlement that convinced many to soldier through Legion‘s more impenetrable stretches. Read full review
40
VarietyScott TobiasJun 15, 2017
Had Smit developed his themes as scrupulously as his visual effects, Kill Switch might have been the next “Primer” or “District 9,” but instead it feels like a demo reel for a game that nobody can play. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleJun 15, 2017
It’s an illogical, simple-minded mess in which Stevens is primarily a disembodied voice in a first-person-shooter-style video game movie. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckJun 15, 2017
A visually imaginative but narratively incoherent exercise that provides viewers the unwelcome opportunity to feel what it’s like to watch a video game being played by someone else. Read full review
20
Village VoiceChris PackhamJun 15, 2017
Kill Switch is an ungainly hybrid of two totally disparate mediums that have been Human Centipede-d together: film and first-person-shooter video games. Film is not the front end of this configuration. Read full review
20
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisJun 15, 2017
The plot, unlike its execution, is not terrible. Read full review
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