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19 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 58The A.V. ClubJosh ModellThe A.V. ClubJosh ModellA largely forgettable lark, notable more for its slight diversions from action-movie norms than anything else.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterJordan MintzerThe Hollywood ReporterJordan MintzerBy doubling down on a movie that yearns to be both introspective and bone-crunchingly cool, Wild Card overplays its hand.
- 50VarietyScott FoundasVarietyScott FoundasAs 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.
- 50Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreSomewhat 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.
- 42The PlaylistKevin JagernauthThe PlaylistKevin JagernauthTrying 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.
- 40Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlVillage VoiceAlan ScherstuhlOverstuffed and distractible, this episodic redo feels like a couple episodes of some Showtime series stitched into a feature.
- 40The DissolveAndrew LapinThe DissolveAndrew LapinThe film doesn’t ask its stars for much, and they deliver.
- 38Slant MagazineEd GonzalezSlant MagazineEd GonzalezThe action-movie pyrotechnics succeed only at reinforcing Simon West's macho bona fides and condescendingly forcing Jason Statham back into his wheelhouse.
- 38New York PostLou LumenickNew York PostLou LumenickA 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.