State of Grace

Columbia TriStar Film | Release Date: September 14, 1990

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60	METASCORE Mixed or average reviews based on 19 Critic Reviews

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TV Guide MagazineStaff (Not Credited)

Visually, State of Grace joins Miller's Crossing as one of the best-looking movies in ages. But, as it nears its bloody ending, the film just gets dumber and dumber. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

State of Grace is a handsomely produced, mostly riveting, but ultimately overlong and overindulgent gangster picture. Read full review

Sheila Benson

Unfortunately, what director Joanou makes of all these promising elements is thudding pretentiousness. Read full review

Rita Kempley

The blarney and bohunkery builds to a shaky apex of nothingness, then ends with a slaughter in slo-motion, a romantic ode of blood, bullets and body parts. Read full review

Dave Kehr

The sentiments expressed are really no more noble or refined than those of a Chuck Norris picture, though Joano's style tries to stamp art all over the sequence. It sure isn't that, but it isn't good action either. [14 Sep 1990, p.B]

Jay Carr

State of Grace is a high-powered, luxuriantly textured Irish gang movie that you keep watching, convinced that at any moment it's going to come together and really grab you. It doesn't. [05 Oct 1990, p.45p]

Bill Cosford

Penn and Oldman booze and brawl and fight a losing battle. Their worst enemy, alas, is their director's self-indulgence. [05 Oct 1990, p.G5]

Russell Stamets

State of Grace is smooth and persuasive but ultimately as senseless as the lives it shows. [05 Oct 1990, p.7]

Rick Groen

Things you will not find in State Of Grace: a script that makes a modicum of psychological sense; a performance that isn't either desperately overwrought or numbly underplayed; and anything resembling grace. [18 Sep 1990]