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14 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 50Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperChicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperMany 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.
- 50Wall Street JournalJohn AndersonWall Street JournalJohn AndersonMayhem is the point. And on that, at least, the movie certainly delivers.
- 40Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovAustin ChronicleMarc SavlovThe 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.
- 30Paste MagazineAndrew CrumpPaste MagazineAndrew CrumpImagine 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.
- 25San Francisco ChronicleG. Allen JohnsonSan Francisco ChronicleG. Allen JohnsonAnyone 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.
- 25New York PostJohnny OleksinskiNew York PostJohnny OleksinskiThe fighting is unsatisfying, and renders the film a failure.
- 25RogerEbert.comPeter SobczynskiRogerEbert.comPeter SobczynskiAlthough 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.
- 20The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckGallo 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.
- 20VarietyDennis HarveyVarietyDennis HarveyVanquish 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
- 16IndieWireEric KohnIndieWireEric KohnWhether 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.