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Metascore
13 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 40The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzThe Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzToo tame in its violence to be thrilling, too flat in its gags to be funny, and too PG-minded to be genuinely sexy, Morel’s film arrives and exits like a mild breeze – totally and utterly forgettable. John Cena deserves better. And so do we.
- 40IGNMatt DonatoIGNMatt DonatoPierre Morel's uninspired work behind the camera goes hand in hand with the film’s nondescript title, dragging viewers through a moodless, toothless action hybrid that, at its best, plays as forgettably inept even with ammunition flying in all directions.
- 40Film ThreatAlan NgFilm ThreatAlan NgIt just feels like a movie that was made because Cena and Brie agreed to star in it.
- 38St. Louis Post-DispatchKatie WalshSt. Louis Post-DispatchKatie WalshFreelance is this incredibly goofy jumble of tones, a movie that doesn’t know what it is or what it wants to be, flailing about as it far overstays its welcome.
- 25Slant MagazineDerek SmithSlant MagazineDerek SmithBy its conclusion, what we’re left with is a cinematic Frankenstein, whose disparate genre elements have been cobbled together without much consideration or fuss.
- 25Original-CinOriginal-CinZero “rom” and very little “com.” The action sequences are perhaps the best parts of the film. Director Pierre Morel sure knows how to crash a helicopter! But there’s only so many times you can watch Cena shoot, fight or drive his way out of danger.
- 25ColliderRoss BonaimeColliderRoss BonaimeFreelance, like Cena’s Mason, wants to be something more, but maybe it should’ve settled for something a little more simplistic and straightforward and found the joy in that.
- 25Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreRaba is a hoot, and even if Csokas isn’t in the bloom of brawling, villainous youth, he gives fair value and he and Brie and Raba and even Cena show commitment to their parts in all this far beyond what this nonsense deserved.
- 12RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoRogerEbert.comBrian TallericoThe most impressive thing about Pierre Morel’s film is how it takes two actors as generally likable as John Cena and Alison Brie and makes them such bland avatars for actual people that they fade into the dull background of action-comedy noise this “movie” tries to achieve.