Samaritan
Amazon Prime Video | Release Date (Streaming): August 26, 2022 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
45
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 28 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
15
Negative:
7
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Critic Reviews

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38
Movie NationRoger MooreAug 26, 2022
The effects are good enough, but there’s a lack of wit and ambition here that just reeks. Read full review
38
PolygonJesse HassengerAug 26, 2022
The movie is so poorly staged that it manages to conceal the supposedly important hero/kid bonding elements, while telegraphing early on where the rest of the story is going. Read full review
38
RogerEbert.comOdie HendersonAug 26, 2022
Samaritan proves, to paraphrase Tina Turner, that we don’t need another superhero. Read full review
38
Slant MagazinePat BrownAug 25, 2022
Perhaps the fairest description of Stallone’s performance is that it’s only as one-note as the material, his stern tough-guy muttering and grimacing just about right for a screenplay that feels like it’s been plucked out of a dustbin left untouched since 1995. Read full review
33
UproxxVince ManciniSep 3, 2022
Usually when you overtly acknowledge the tropes and standard story beats in a movie like this, it’s for some purpose, some comment about what we like about or what it means to be a comic book movie. Samaritan is really none of that, it’s more like discount comic book movie slurry. Read full review
30
Wall Street JournalJohn AndersonAug 26, 2022
They can give the film’s characters physics-defying acrobatic skills. But they can’t provide anyone much motivation. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleZaki HasanAug 25, 2022
It’s a pastiche of a pastiche, cycling through familiar tropes without adding anything to them; turning what could have been a fascinating critique of society’s superhero obsession into just another way of indulging it. Read full review
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