Wild Card
Lionsgate | Release Date: January 30, 2015 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
40
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Mixed or average reviews based on 19 Critic Reviews
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3
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11
Negative:
5
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
63
RogerEbert.comOdie HendersonJan 30, 2015
I really enjoyed listening to Statham talk. His fight scenes have their predictable, violent payoffs, but his rambling monologues are unexpectedly, gloriously entertaining. This film’s tagline should be “Come for the stabbing, stay for the gabbing!” Read full review
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Geoff PevereJan 29, 2015
There’s a modern noir story struggling to get out of Wild Card, just as there was in "Heat," and you can feel it every time Statham – a fine actor even when he’s not rearranging people’s skeletal structure – has to sit down, stare into yet another tumbler of vodka rocks and contemplate the miserable life sentence of his habit. Read full review
63
Chicago Sun-TimesBruce IngramJan 29, 2015
It’s no secret that Jason Statham demonstrates remarkable flair when it comes to bone-crunching action-movie mayhem, but he deserves special props for making some of the more outrageous flights of macho fantasy in Wild Card seem credible. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubJosh ModellJan 28, 2015
A largely forgettable lark, notable more for its slight diversions from action-movie norms than anything else. Read full review
50
Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyJan 30, 2015
Stanley Tucci, Hope Davis, Anne Heche, and Sofia Vergara all pop up in glorified cameos and give the movie more fizz than their roles require. Which begs the question: Why would they sign on for such thankless, bite-size roles? Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreJan 27, 2015
Somewhat less than the sum of its many amusing or at least unusual parts. But with Goldman, West and all these classy co-stars, he’s at least kicking butt in better company these days. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterJordan MintzerJan 14, 2015
By doubling down on a movie that yearns to be both introspective and bone-crunchingly cool, Wild Card overplays its hand. Read full review
50
VarietyScott FoundasJan 14, 2015
As usual, Statham gets a lot of mileage out of his droll, ever-present scowl, but as in “Heat,” the movie’s disparate narrative strands never really come together, and the climactic showdown feels pretty anticlimactic. Read full review
42
The PlaylistKevin JagernauthJan 28, 2015
Trying to find a middle ground between an action packed Statham vehicle, a '70s style mood piece, and a '90s era, character-actor packed crime tale, Wild Card is not surprisingly an unsuccessful marriage of those ill-fitting genres. Read full review
40
The TelegraphTim RobeyMar 19, 2015
Wild Card, which keeps giving the Stath too much mannered hard-boiled dialogue for his own good, is a promising blend of components that don’t quite end up gelling. Read full review
40
TheWrapJames RocchiFeb 5, 2015
Delivering boredom when it promises mayhem, Wild Card is a bad bet that doesn’t pay off for either the film’s makers or its audience. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesBetsy SharkeyJan 29, 2015
Although the film has little of the smarts and the sizzle of the best of Goldman, it does have a splash of the writer's sense of irony. Read full review
40
The DissolveAndrew LapinJan 29, 2015
The film doesn’t ask its stars for much, and they deliver. Read full review
40
Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlJan 27, 2015
Overstuffed and distractible, this episodic redo feels like a couple episodes of some Showtime series stitched into a feature. Read full review
38
New York PostLou LumenickJan 28, 2015
A better cast this time around — Michael Angarano, Milo Ventimiglia, Sofía Vergara and Max Casella, with cameos by Jason Alexander, Stanley Tucci and Hope Davis — tries to breathe life into Goldman’s cliché-ridden plot. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineEd GonzalezJan 25, 2015
The action-movie pyrotechnics succeed only at reinforcing Simon West's macho bona fides and condescendingly forcing Jason Statham back into his wheelhouse. Read full review
30
The New York TimesNicolas RapoldJan 29, 2015
Slow-motion knockouts follow, with Mr. Statham as sure-fisted as ever, but the “Expendables” director Simon West can only summon dead air in between. Mr. Goldman’s slightly offbeat underworld is not very convincing, and Mr. Statham’s thick voice and inexpressive acting suggest brain fog rather than gritty blues. Read full review
25
ObserverRex ReedJan 28, 2015
A quirky re-boot of the old Burt Reynolds hashtag "Heat," this modest character vehicle for the lifeless, balding and incomprehensibly inarticulate Jason Statham is so bleak and moody it won’t be much of a lure to action fans. Read full review
20
New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanJan 29, 2015
Statham brings so little energy that the fight scenes are hardly more vivid than the gambling ones. His one-liners have no heart; his cynicism is no longer sharp. Read full review
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