The November Man
Relativity Media | Release Date: August 27, 2014 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
38
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 32 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
19
Negative:
10
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaAug 27, 2014
An efficient, if not exactly inspiring, espionage thriller, full of high-tech gadgetry (surveillance drones! flash drives!) and low-tech action (car chases! shootouts! a shovel to the head!). Read full review
68
Film.comJames RocchiAug 26, 2014
A nicely-made action-thriller, one with analog car chases and non-digital explosions, like a long tall glass of cold water in a world that mostly offers you Bud Light or Crystal Pepsi. Read full review
63
USA TodayClaudia PuigAug 28, 2014
A predictable espionage thriller undercut further by loose ends left dangling, November Man is worth seeing only for Pierce Brosnan's dynamic lead performance. Read full review
60
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriAug 28, 2014
Appropriately pulpy — fuss-free and fast. Read full review
60
Arizona RepublicBarbara VanDenburghAug 26, 2014
Nothing fresh is being brought to the table, but it's a sufficient bit of fun for anyone who longs for the days of Brosnan's spy swagger. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeAug 14, 2014
Though the film's cat-and-mouse scenes hardly compare to those in a Bourne movie, they're enjoyable and only occasionally ridiculous. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubJesse HassengerAug 27, 2014
Too frequently, the movie also treats its female characters as props to be shuffled in and out of danger as the screenplay requires — a nasty tendency that undermines its ongoing (and murkily argued) debate about whether a successful agent can maintain his humanity. Read full review
58
Portland OregonianMarc MohanAug 27, 2014
Makes good, unobtrusive use of its European locations, and has a couple of well-orchestrated urban chase scenes. But, even in these days of renewed U.S.-Russian tensions, its Cold War demeanor feels anachronistic, and its simple cynicism comes off as recycled and cheap. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliAug 29, 2014
The November Man feels like just about every B-grade spy thriller that has ever been committed to the silver screen. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenAug 27, 2014
The November Man is diligently executed, and Brosnan gives a fine performance as an action hero who can convey a character’s thought processes as well as deliver a punch. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam LaceyAug 27, 2014
The November Man is one of those thrillers that grows progressively more incoherent, and it simply isn’t fast enough to glide over its gaping narrative holes. Read full review
50
Entertainment WeeklyJason ClarkAug 27, 2014
The utter lack of originality eventually sinks the movie. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzAug 27, 2014
The November Man wants to be taken seriously, except when it doesn't. This creates viewer whiplash. The movie is confused and often untrustworthy. Read full review
50
Boston GlobePeter KeoughAug 26, 2014
Sadly, the film rapidly devolves into an AARP version of a Jason Bourne-like vendetta, only bloodier and less meaningful. Read full review
50
St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsAug 26, 2014
Although The November Man shows us some attractive people in motion, the cumulative effect leaves us neither shaken nor stirred. Read full review
50
The New York TimesBen KenigsbergAug 26, 2014
There is something to be said for a thriller that rips along with no regard for anything other than its own pace, coasting on Mr. Brosnan’s blunter-than-Bond suavity and Ms. Kurylenko’s beauty. Read full review
42
The PlaylistNikola GrozdanovicAug 25, 2014
As far as the spy genre goes, Pierce Brosnan’s The November Man is more filler than thriller. Read full review
40
Total FilmKen McIntyreJan 9, 2015
Pierce Brosnan, a long way from his Bond days, huffs and puffs his way through a boilerplate thriller that finds his ex-CIA hitman, Peter Devereaux, retired to a coffee shop in Switzerland. Read full review
40
The GuardianJordan HoffmanSep 9, 2014
There’s no way around this: The November Man is asinine. It is not without its pleasures – if you like seeing people get hit in the face with shovels, that is – but it might be the most irresponsibly dumb spy thriller I’ve seen in some time. Read full review
40
Wall Street JournalJohn AndersonAug 28, 2014
In their engaging, fast-paced and ultimately ludicrous combo of espionage and mayhem, the makers of The November Man give us a very Putin-like villain in Arkady Federov (veteran Serbian actor Lazar Ristovski). Read full review
40
Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlAug 27, 2014
As far as escapist fluff laced with totally unnecessary real-world horror goes, The November Man isn't wretched. Read full review
40
The DissolveScott TobiasAug 27, 2014
The November Man doesn’t pause for a moment’s breath, which tightens up the action at the expense of clarity, character development, wit, politics, themes, subtext, and all the other things that can go into a thriller besides bang-bang and crash-crash. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineEric HendersonAug 27, 2014
Roger Donaldson embellishes an already overly plotty scenario with hollowly attractive genre superfluities. Read full review
38
McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreAug 25, 2014
A humorless, muddled, bloody and generally unpleasant thriller. Read full review
33
Charlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanAug 29, 2014
The rest of the film couldn’t convince a sixth-grader it might happen. CIA agents search a home for evidence but leave the front door unlocked and unguarded, so Devereaux sneaks in and knocks them out. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleAug 26, 2014
It's called The November Man, but it's really just another forgettable August release. Read full review
30
New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanAug 26, 2014
Even in the lazy days of late August, this movie is hardly worth the price of popcorn. Read full review
30
VarietyAndrew BarkerAug 14, 2014
Runs through spy-movie cliches with such dogged obligation that it often plays like a YouTube compilation of scenes from older, better thrillers, generating little overall tension and only occasionally approaching basic coherence. Read full review
25
Washington PostAnn HornadayAug 28, 2014
The November Man turns out to be the classic August movie: a triumph of competence over imagination and schlock over taste. Its highest value lies in reminding filmgoers that fall can’t come too soon. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChroniclePeter HartlaubAug 26, 2014
Often frustrating and at times incomprehensible, the Bourne/Bond clone keeps the pulse racing but ultimately fails to satisfy. Read full review
20
TheWrapAlonso DuraldeAug 14, 2014
This is the sort of film where the plot and even the action become so uninteresting that you start asking plausibility questions. Read full review
12
New York PostKyle SmithAug 26, 2014
This one resembles a James Bond film about as much as Belgrade resembles London. Read full review
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