Unhinged
Solstice Studios | Release Date: August 21, 2020 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
40
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Mixed or average reviews based on 36 Critic Reviews
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6
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18
Negative:
12
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60
IGNJim VejvodaAug 20, 2020
With any other actor as the menacing lead, Unhinged would have been a TV movie or straight-to-streaming release, but Crowe and a few well-executed scenes of action still manage to hold the viewer’s interest throughout what’s essentially 90 minutes of genre filler material. Read full review
60
Time OutPhil de SemlyenAug 3, 2020
Crowe’s satisfyingly nasty turn deserves a bit more brains to go with the brawn. Read full review
60
Total FilmMatthew LeylandJul 31, 2020
“I’m always going to be inside your head,” growls Crowe. Maybe not, but this fast, brutal chase-fest is trashy fun while it lasts. Read full review
60
EmpireChristina NewlandJul 31, 2020
In spite of what may seem like a direct-to-VOD vibe, this is a slick, nasty thriller with a throwback quality, neither too self-serious nor too self-aware. While it’s not especially fresh, it’s still solid genre filmmaking. Read full review
58
Vanity FairRichard LawsonAug 20, 2020
Unhinged is a nasty piece of work, jarringly rough but also, in fits and starts, bracing entertainment. Read full review
50
UproxxVince ManciniAug 20, 2020
Oddly, the most compelling part of Unhinged is seeing just how much mayhem director Derrick Borte and writer Carl Ellsworth can squeeze out of this most mundane of premises. Read full review
50
Screen RantSandy SchaeferAug 20, 2020
Between its concise action and Crowe's scenery-chewing, Unhinged makes for an amusingly trashy B-movie, even if its social commentary never congeals. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleBob StraussAug 19, 2020
It’s a simple, sick, ridiculous story told with relentless tension and forward thrust. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperAug 18, 2020
Russell Crowe is an A-list star in a B-movie, but to his credit it never feels as if he’s slumming it. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsAug 18, 2020
In the sadistic yet middling road-rage thriller Unhinged, Crowe literally steers the vehicle delivering the big box of acting, over- and under-. While there’s barely a movie there, a year from now, when the multiplexes of the world will either largely be back, be gone or be something in between, we’ll have forgotten Unhinged. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreAug 18, 2020
It’s the best showcase Russell Crowe‘s had in forever. Sure, it’s a B-picture, a straight-up rage-on-the-road genre movie in the “Duel,””Changing Lanes” or “Falling Down” mold. But Crowe, overweight and the very embodiment of “gone to seed,” gives this villain-we-all-know a face to fear and a hulking pick-up truck to match. Read full review
50
VarietyGuy LodgeJul 30, 2020
The carnage is the point here, not any of the reasoning behind it, and Borte and Crowe bring it to a suitably frothing, furious head: Some movies just want to watch the world burn, preferably on a very big screen. Read full review
45
TheWrapSteve PondAug 19, 2020
A brutal action flick that’s running on ugly from start to finish, the film from director Derrick Borte flirts with having something to say about stressful, angry times and toxic masculinity, but settles for letting Russell Crowe glower, seethe and leave a whole lotta destruction in his gruesome wake. Read full review
42
Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattAug 19, 2020
It doesn't help that Pistorius' Rachel spends the first 75 of it like a woman who's never seen a horror movie — if there were noises in the basement, she'd run right down to investigate with a plastic spork in her hand — and the final 15 like a ninja assassin who invented them. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubA.A. Dowd Aug 18, 2020
This may be the first role that’s really capitalized on Crowe’s celebrity reputation as a hothead, even if the unnamed lunatic he’s playing only barks threats into a phone instead of chucking it at anyone. Read full review
40
Film ThreatMatthew PassantinoAug 22, 2020
The movie knows what it is, and undoubtedly offers some tense moments, but once the plot contrivances start to stack up, Unhinged becomes too silly for its own good. It leans heavily into the violence to distract, but the flailing story surrounding it. Read full review
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New York Magazine (Vulture)Alison WillmoreAug 21, 2020
For a movie marking a week in which theaters are reopening, Unhinged feels a lot like a movie that would be best caught on cable someday. Read full review
40
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisAug 20, 2020
While Derrick Borte’s filmmaking is bluntly efficient — and the vehicular stunt work impressive — the character is a windup toy, a dumb and dirty symbol of male grievance. Read full review
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