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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11
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
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
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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
50
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
50
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
50
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
50
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
50
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
50
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
50
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
45
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
40
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
40
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
40
The GuardianPeter BradshawApr 28, 2021
There’s not much real spark to it. Read full review
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