Vanquish
Lionsgate | Release Date: April 16, 2021 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
22
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 14 Critic Reviews
Positive:
0
Mixed:
5
Negative:
9
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
55
Film ThreatAlan NgApr 28, 2021
Ultimately, Vanquish falls into the cliché of typical action films, where the focus is on the action, and the story is a way to string the action together Read full review
50
Wall Street JournalJohn AndersonApr 15, 2021
Mayhem is the point. And on that, at least, the movie certainly delivers. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperApr 15, 2021
Many scenes are bathed in a sickly green, as if we’re watching everything through cheap night-vision goggles; others are tinted blood-red. No matter what filters are used, there’s no disguising this is garbage wrapped in a glossy package. Read full review
40
The GuardianPhil HoadMay 25, 2021
Rose looks great – her androgynous poise reminiscent of the young Angelina Jolie – and does a capable job carrying Vanquish. But you wonder if this noir-filtered, John Wick-apeing thriller is a little too stripped-back for its own good to advance her career. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovApr 14, 2021
The plot mechanics, action set pieces, and characters arcs – or lack thereof – are all dreadfully overfamiliar, resulting in a cream puff of a thriller. It’s a shiny, pretty thing and probably a decent filler flick while the world waits for Mr. Wick’s return. Read full review
30
Screen RantDebopriyaa DuttaMay 2, 2021
Replete with atrocious visual effects and sound design, Vanquish emerges as a ghost of an exciting action thriller with a tired, deadpan storyline. Read full review
30
Paste MagazineAndrew CrumpApr 21, 2021
Imagine spending an hour and a half or so watching a film that, the minute the credits roll, dissolves from the mind like cotton candy in hot water. That’s Vanquish. Nothing that happens throughout its narrative happens for any good reason, other than the plot dictates it must for the sake of limping to the next scene. Read full review
25
RogerEbert.comPeter SobczynskiApr 16, 2021
Although Vanquish is otherwise as forgettable as can be—that may be the closest thing that it has to a virtue—there's still one thing about it that I cannot immediately shake, and that is the presence of Morgan Freeman in a role that requires so little effort it's a wonder that Bruce Willis didn’t take it. Read full review
25
New York PostJohnny OleksinskiApr 15, 2021
The fighting is unsatisfying, and renders the film a failure. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleG. Allen JohnsonApr 14, 2021
Anyone wondering what 1960s TV show Ironside would have been like if Raymond Burr had been a dirty cop gets their answer courtesy of Morgan Freeman in the dreadful new thriller Vanquish. Read full review
20
VarietyDennis HarveyApr 15, 2021
Vanquish isn’t bad so much as inert — nothing here is convincing, tense, kinetic, outrageous, or silly enough to give the movie even fleeting life. The script is so by-the-numbers, the performers can hardly hide their disinterest, a feeling soon to be shared by viewers Read full review
20
The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckApr 15, 2021
Gallo displays none of the screenwriting elan he's exhibited in such previous efforts as Midnight Run and the Bad Boys films, although here it's hard to separate the ponderous dialogue from the way it's delivered. Read full review
16
IndieWireEric KohnApr 14, 2021
Whether or not you adore “The Shawshank Redemption,” “Driving Miss Daisy,” “Million Dollar Baby” — or even the “Almighty” franchise, for crying out loud — the Freeman spark that elevated those movies is nowhere to be found, and Freeman minus the Freeman factor is just a lost cause. Read full review
5
ABC NewsPeter TraversApr 23, 2021
It’s a form of actor abuse to see the legendary Morgan Freeman trapped in this relentlessly violent and vapid mess that does offer one lesson to students of cinema in how to do everything calamitously wrong. Read full review
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