Rage
Image Entertainment | Release Date: July 11, 2014 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
28
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 17 Critic Reviews
Positive:
0
Mixed:
6
Negative:
11
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
50
USA TodayScott BowlesJul 10, 2014
A picture that isn't as terrible as its title suggests now as deep as its story aspires to be. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterJonathan HollandJul 8, 2014
There are some good ideas struggling to be heard, but they're drowned out by the contrivances, the gunfire and the screaming. Read full review
50
The DissolveMike D'AngeloJul 8, 2014
Rage actually has something to say about the futility of vengeance, though that doesn’t become apparent until a climactic revelation re-contextualizes everything. Unfortunately, getting to that sorrowful ending is a real slog. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyJul 9, 2014
Unfortunately, eccentricities are few and far between in the movie, with sleepy action that bungles its best ideas (like its potentially interesting twist ending) and finds Cage delivering one of his more moribund performances. Read full review
40
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriJul 11, 2014
The movie is imprisoned by its Cage’s stiffness. All he gives us is strained, robotic seriousness. I’m not sure he even gives us any rage. Read full review
40
Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlJul 8, 2014
You may feel some anger if you pay to watch this. Or you may not, as Rage offers exactly what you think a Nic Cage movie called Rage would, except maybe for continually inspired lunacy. Read full review
38
Philadelphia InquirerDavid HiltbrandJul 11, 2014
There isn't an original frame or line of dialogue in Rage. It's strictly paint by numbers. Or in this case, plasma. Read full review
38
McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreJul 8, 2014
Rage lets us see where all the money was spent — on Cage, and on a noisy, metal-rending car chase through scenic Mobile. It’s head-slappingly dumb, it’s dull and even the novelty of filming outside of the over-filmed Los Angeles adds nothing. Read full review
30
VarietyJustin ChangJul 14, 2014
Proficiently made but fatally unpersuasive in its portrayal of internecine gang warfare, this thuggish melodrama piles on the foreign accents and paint-by-numbers brutality, all served up with a grim, operatic self-seriousness that gives Cage’s antihero little room to maneuver. Read full review
30
The New York TimesNicolas RapoldJul 11, 2014
The hand-me-down showiness and sluggish storytelling by the director, Paco Cabezas, underline the monotony in this ordinary revenge thriller. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinJul 11, 2014
There's a late-breaking twist that might seem impressive if it didn't make all the previous mayhem feel so intensely pointless. Read full review
25
RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyJul 11, 2014
The reason he’s (Cage) the most interesting thing here is not because his performances is particularly intense or eccentric but because everything around him is so wretchedly dull. Read full review
25
ObserverRex ReedJul 10, 2014
Rage is another formulaic re-tread that needs its brakes re-lined. Read full review
25
New York PostKyle SmithJul 9, 2014
There’s nothing wrong with being a brainless B-movie, but this one is funless and lackluster, a grinding mess of pulp clichés with dull characters, perfunctory violence and dim plotting. Read full review
25
Slant MagazineClayton DillardJul 7, 2014
Paco Cabezas's film is little more than a revenge relic pretending that the ethical treatise of David Cronenberg's A History of Violence never happened. Read full review
20
New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanJul 10, 2014
As for our leading man, he’s clearly just messing with us now. Who else would make a revenge thriller called Rage and then sleepwalk his way through it? Read full review
0
The PlaylistNikola GrozdanovicJul 20, 2014
Tired, lazy, incongruous, shocking and hilarious in all the wrong places, Rage is destined for the graveyard television slot, squeezed between infomercials for mops. Read full review
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