Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse
Amazon Studios | Release Date (Streaming): April 30, 2021 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 41 Critic Reviews
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70
IGNZaki HasanApr 29, 2021
Even as Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse goes through some familiar paces, it’s elevated by the presence at its center of star/producer Michael B. Jordan. Read full review
70
VarietyOwen GleibermanApr 28, 2021
Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse is a lively formulaic action-hero origin story, dunked in combat grunge, that demonstrates how a resourceful lead actor can bend and heighten the meaning of a commercial thriller. Read full review
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The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyApr 28, 2021
The result is a solid entry in the Clancy screen canon — gritty, briskly paced, laced with vigorously choreographed fight scenes, explosive weapons action and twisty political intrigue that seems prescient as it taps into the most strained period in U.S.-Russian relations since the Cold War. Read full review
67
The Film StageGlenn Heath Jr.Apr 28, 2021
The film would almost certainly benefit from more brawling and less speechifying since Jordan in particular is very good at the former. The actor’s bottled up intensity, convincingly unleashed in Black Panther and Creed, is this film’s greatest asset. Read full review
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Original-CinJim SlotekApr 28, 2021
Mostly, this is a look at how solid actors can carry a nuts-and-bolts, dramatically undemanding action film. Jordan is physically imposing, and handles the action choreography with style. Read full review
63
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsApr 30, 2021
Thanks to the director, what they do makes for painless “avoidance viewing” — something to kill 100 minutes or so while you’re avoiding something else, delivered in an impersonal but not unskillful manner. Read full review
63
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliApr 30, 2021
At best, Without Remorse is a serviceable action thriller but there are times, as in the rushed and unsatisfying final 20 minutes, when such a description is overly generous. Read full review
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The Associated PressLindsey BahrApr 29, 2021
The good news is that Without Remorse is pretty great when it comes to the action, and there is a lot of it. Read full review
60
EmpireNick de SemlyenApr 28, 2021
The action is sharp and imaginative, and Jordan strongly establishes his action-flick credentials. But story-wise it’s all very familiar and more than a little dour. Read full review
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Total FilmJamie GrahamApr 28, 2021
While some viewers may want more explosions and twists, there's no denying Michael B. Jordan makes for a riveting action hero in Without Remorse Read full review
60
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzApr 28, 2021
Without Remorse is neither a classic nor a failure; it falls somewhere in-between. But like Kelly on a seemingly doomed mission, there’s Jordan, giving it all he’s got to save the day. Read full review
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TheWrapAlonso DuraldeApr 28, 2021
It’s a stolidly 80s action movie, from its Russian villains to its third-act plot twist that can be seen from space, but it’s lucky to have Michael B. Jordan giving an actual performance in what could have been an even more generic shoot-em-up. Read full review
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TimeStephanie ZacharekApr 29, 2021
And yet, in these stressful times, a little mindless action isn’t wholly unwelcome, and Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse—directed by Stefano Sollima, who not long ago gave us Sicario: Day of the Soldado—is moderately un-terrible, a diversion that hits every beat predictably, with a mighty grunt. Read full review
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New York PostJohnny OleksinskiApr 29, 2021
Indeed, Clancy has written 20 books featuring John Clark. But, even with a star as charismatic and physically formidable as Jordan, audiences won’t be hungry for a single sequel. Read full review
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Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperApr 29, 2021
The Amazon Prime original movie Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse has to be considered one of the more disappointing films of 2021 so far, given the long and rich history of entertaining adaptations of Clancy’s work and the vibrant star power of its leading man. Read full review
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The New York TimesBen KenigsbergApr 29, 2021
Jordan makes a sturdy enough action hero, but the character as portrayed doesn’t give him any contours to play. Read full review
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Movie NationRoger MooreApr 29, 2021
The longer it goes on, the more over-the-top the set pieces get and the more dated the “geopolitics” of it all seems. Clancy has one big theme that turns up in almost all of his adapted-into-scripts novels, and it’s front and center here, served up without apology by a deliriously successful writer whose every book had a whiff of “His Greatest Hits” about it. Read full review
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CNNBrian LowryApr 29, 2021
Whatever the intricacies in Clancy's book, they're largely abandoned in a violent revenge tale that a few decades ago might have starred someone like Steven Seagal. Read full review
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ObserverOliver JonesApr 28, 2021
Without the grounding of richly drawn characters and burdened by ideas that reflect Pentagon policy papers of the late 1980s rather than our current world, Without Remorse has the feeling of product rather than cinema — just another polished, consumer-facing, slightly stale gizmo scooting down the virtual Amazon assembly line. Read full review
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ScreenCrushMatt SingerApr 28, 2021
The movie around Jordan is just like Kelly himself: Cold, detached, and brutal. Read full review
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Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattApr 28, 2021
Vengeance is wrought without remorse and even less sense. The only sure thing, judging by the promise of a post-credits scene, is a sequel. Read full review
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The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzApr 28, 2021
At least Without Remorse gets one thing right: casting onscreen dynamo Michael B. Jordan as the out-for-blood hero. Read full review
42
IndieWireDavid EhrlichApr 28, 2021
Without Remorse doesn’t understand the role it’s meant to serve as the foundation of a potential franchise. It’s a movie locked in a tedious custody battle between legacy and potential, too safe to whet appetites for what’s to come while also too sequel-oriented to stand on its own two legs. Read full review
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The A.V. ClubJesse HassengerApr 28, 2021
The movie’s attempts at ruthless pulp manipulation don’t land; cruelly offing a character whose entire personality is “pregnant” is a cheap bid for John Wick stakes. Read full review
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CNETRichard TrenholmOct 8, 2021
All the slow-burning cinematography in the world can't disguise that Without Remorse is assembled almost entirely from creaky spy/action movie cliches. Read full review
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SlashfilmJosh SpiegelMay 6, 2021
Despite the mostly younger cast, Without Remorse is a bland throwback to the late 1980s and early 1990s, hearkening to an era of such simplistic notions of good and bad that its script could have been unearthed from a time capsule. Sollima’s direction is journeyman-like, which wouldn’t be a demerit if the film he was directing didn’t feel so lifeless. Read full review
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ABC NewsPeter TraversApr 30, 2021
No knock on serving up an action-jacked Michael B. Jordan in an R-rated, red-meat, military thriller. But this clumsy update of Clancy’s 1993 bestseller should have been way better than a generic, one-note, cash grab. Read full review
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Screen RantMae AbdulbakiApr 29, 2021
Reliant on specific political clichés and a twist the audience will see coming from a mile away, Without Remorse is utterly bland and devoid of moxie. Read full review
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Screen DailyTim GriersonApr 28, 2021
With more than a dash of Jason Bourne and Mission: Impossible, director Stefano Sollima’s undistinguished shoot-‘em-up feels so indebted to its influences that it never establishes much of a personality of its own. Read full review
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The GuardianPeter BradshawApr 28, 2021
There’s not much real spark to it. Read full review
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RogerEbert.comOdie HendersonApr 28, 2021
This is one of those super-convoluted conspiracy theory movies where nothing makes sense and you simply stop caring. Saviors show up inexplicably at just the right time. People come off as evil for the sole purpose of misleading us. There’s no character development, a lot of patriotic posturing and the villain gives a lecture that must have been written before they cast a Black actor as its recipient. Despite endless gunfire and a lot of shit blowing up, most of the action sequences fail to quicken the pulse. Read full review
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Paste MagazineJacob OllerApr 30, 2021
Making it just a little bit smarter—taking out perhaps just one of its multiple, intelligence-insulting ending clichés—could make its plot simply boring rather than asinine, which would make the film dangerously forgettable, able to inflict 100-minute gaps into moviegoers’ memories at distances of up to 500 yards. Read full review
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ConsequenceBlake GobleApr 28, 2021
Many shots fired, all of them misses. This is a film without quality, care, or any real decency. Read full review
30
UproxxVince ManciniMay 5, 2021
If Without Remorse has any value at all, it’s as a headscratcher. You know it doesn’t work, but what were they attempting here? Read full review
30
Vanity FairRichard LawsonMay 5, 2021
Best to move past Without Remorse. assured that Jordan will find another, more fitting star vehicle for himself. Maybe one that’s a bit hipper to the mores and styles of the present day, and is more willing to let its lead express something beyond the wordless violence of so much canned fury. Read full review
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Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangApr 30, 2021
It takes a peculiar kind of ineptitude to cast an actor as good as Michael B. Jordan and wind up with something as decidedly not good as Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse. Read full review
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San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleApr 28, 2021
Sollima knows how to film violence, so individual moments stand out. What Sollima can’t do is make a good movie from a bad script. Read full review
25
The PlaylistRodrigo PerezApr 28, 2021
Ultimately, put its questionable politics aside, Without Remorse, even as a simplistic action thriller is joyless and lifeless, an arid space of empty macho bullshit with a lead character who is the equivalent of a bulging forehead veins meme. Read full review
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Slant MagazineMark HansonApr 28, 2021
The film is a disastrous amalgamation of modern-day tech-savvy thrills and Clancy’s conservative expressions of patriotism. Read full review
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PolygonRobert DanielsApr 30, 2021
While Sollima tries to rekindle Clancy’s 1990s magic, Without Remorse is rendered as unmemorable schlock due to his inability to map the author’s familiar espionage themes onto a new protagonist with very different story requirements. Read full review
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New York Magazine (Vulture)Alison WillmoreApr 29, 2021
Without Remorse is awful — an incoherently shot, grindingly dull movie in which just about every actor manages to seem miscast. Read full review
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