Old Guy
The Avenue Entertainment | Release Date: February 21, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 11 Critic Reviews
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Mixed:
5
Negative:
6
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IndieWireChristian ZilkoFeb 21, 2025
Ideally, you want your action comedies to contain compelling action sequences and funny comedy. At the very least, it’s fair to expect one of the two. Despite a semi-compelling relationship at its core, “Old Guy” isn’t nearly as funny as it thinks it is, and its set pieces are quite flat by action standards. Read full review
50
IGNErik AdamsFeb 28, 2025
There’s no snap to the dialogue, no thrill to a majority of the action, and the other characters played by Cooper Hoffman and Lucy Liu (and their relationships to Dolinski) make no lasting impression. Read full review
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Paste MagazineJim VorelFeb 19, 2025
Old Guy is a rather careless take on the fusion of comedy and action genres, the kind of film that will throw around an acronym like “PSNI” in the middle of conversation and just assume an American sitting at home on their couch will deduce this stands for “Police Service of Northern Ireland.” Read full review
40
The GuardianPeter BradshawMar 6, 2025
Three big names doing a professional job … but the target isn’t found. Read full review
40
ColliderRobert Brian TaylorFeb 19, 2025
Old Guy looks the part of a classic, character-based action-thriller, but, ultimately, the script is far too flimsy for the film to coalesce into something interesting. It's too bad, as Waltz could almost certainly crush in one of these, given the right material. Read full review
38
RogerEbert.comClint WorthingtonFeb 21, 2025
This is a warmed-over remix of crime comedy and thriller tropes, as awkwardly paced as it is murkily shot. Read full review
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The Associated PressLindsey BahrFeb 19, 2025
Old Guy feels very of this moment in the fact that it looks good and has a good cast and yet can’t seem to deliver something that’s either entertaining or meaningful. But unlike so many of its peers, this one amazingly was not made by a streamer. Read full review
30
Screen RantHannah GearanFeb 21, 2025
The film's dialogue is insincere and cookie-cutter, failing to deliver naturalistic character growth. And surmounting its inefficacy at simulating humanity is perhaps Old Guy's most glaring action movie sin: it's truly boring. Read full review
30
The New York TimesNatalia WinkelmanFeb 20, 2025
Beyond the stale plot and groaners that make up the dialogue, “Old Guy” suffers from haphazard pacing, as if every third scene was cut out in postproduction. Watching, one wonders who this movie is for — even within the target demographic stated in the title. Read full review
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The A.V. ClubBrianna ZiglerFeb 21, 2025
Old Guy, as is, is just a film about an old guy, free of complexity or nuance, coasting towards its formulaic conclusion. Read full review
20
VarietyCourtney HowardFeb 21, 2025
What should be a plucky, whip-smart character-driven actioner about an elderly assassin fighting career obsolescence morphs into a dusty, no-stakes patchwork of clichés that shrugs off any resonance, let alone entertainment value. Read full review
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