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34 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75Slant MagazineGlenn Heath Jr.Slant MagazineGlenn Heath Jr.Walter Hill thoughtfully regards the pummeling power of weaponry at work.
- Like the amped up comeback tour of two rockers who had their heyday sometime in the mid-'80s, Sylvester Stallone and director Walter Hill (48 HRS., The Warriors) join forces for a hard-hitting exercise in beefy, brainless fun with the New Orleans-set actioner Bullet to the Head.
- 67The A.V. ClubScott TobiasThe A.V. ClubScott TobiasThe X-factors tend to be the script and the performances, and those elements largely betray him in Bullet To The Head, which is a perfunctory exercise whenever Hill isn't busying himself with gun battles, ax fights, and other mano-a-mano confrontations. He can only do so much.
- 63Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsChicago TribuneMichael PhillipsIt's junk, and it's excessively violent, which is a given. Approach it as a Stallone movie (which it is) or as a Hill movie (which it is), but it's more interesting as a Hill movie. If it gets this director back into the hard-driving action game, then it will have done its duty.
- 50Chicago Sun-TimesChicago Sun-TimesAn occasionally entertaining, often incomprehensible and ultimately quite average 1980s-homage mismatched buddy action picture.
- 40Total FilmTotal FilmStallone's shtick keeps it from collapsing into farce but, overall, Bullet To The Head is too derivative and disposable to warrant serious attention.
- 40EmpireChris Hewitt (1)EmpireChris Hewitt (1)Fun in parts, and Stallone's always watchable, but it's an '80s tribute movie that coasts along on rapidly diminishing goodwill. Beige Heat, if you will.
- The film is a hoot and goes by quickly, but there's nothing here you haven't seen before.
- 38McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreMcClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreChoppy and bordering on incoherent, Bullet to the Head is Stallone's answer to Schwarzenegger's "The Last Stand," an action exercise in "Here's how we used to do it."