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The actioner will wind up the holiday weekend with $107 million domestically.

The sci-fi actioner, which held the top spot last weekend, has taken in $45.6 million domestically.

Between then and now, Johnson's helmed the 2008 lyrical heist film The Brothers Bloom and 2012's trippy, blood-soaked sci-fi actioner Looper.

So consider Lucy the, well, Lucy-like intersection between the two: a fun, fast-paced, and fake-deep actioner that achieves total perfection in the time it takes most people to make dinner.

STXfilms' second weekend of Jackie Chan actioner "The Foreigner" will land in sixth with about $5.6 million, ahead of Universal's "The Snowman," which is finishing far below forecasts with $3.4 million at 1,812 venues.

"Rotten Tomatoes critic score (season 6): 100%What critics said: "Having matured with every season since its inauspicious 2008 pilot movie, The Clone Wars has become a cinematic actioner as enjoyable for adult fans as its target youngling audience.

Before her time with my turbulent father, and unbeknown to me then, Marrie had, at age 18, played the title role of the kung fu-fighting Interpol agent in "They Call Her Cleopatra Wong" (1978), an exuberant low-budget actioner by Bobby Suarez.

Put aside the outlandishness of the suggestion for a minute, and consider the way female vocalists typically appear within the context of the genre-cum-marketing-term: painted on with total anonymity, not unlike the blank android faces in the faux-deep Will Smith sci-fi actioner I, Robot.

In terms of games you can get on the PS4 and nowhere else, you're looking at the likes of mystical fairytale The Last Guardian, the Indiana Jones-esque Uncharted series, fantasy actioner Bloodborne, robots vs nature quest Horizon Zero Dawn (above), and endless space exploration game No Man's Sky (though that last one did make it to PC as well).

With director Robert Schwentke returning to the helm, and a cast lead by Shailene Woodley suiting up for another sci-fi actioner where big ideas are often bottled down into resounding clichés, this handsomely made effects-driven vehicle offers more of the same and then some — a fact that will hardly bother fans who've already pledged their allegiance to the franchise, but won't convert any nonbelievers.

The temporal (and, at times, literal) isolation of Logan might stand apart from the increasingly episodic structure of today's comic-book movies, but Mangold's road-trip actioner—which focuses on the titular Wolverine and Professor X (Patrick Stewart) as they attempt to help an 11-year-old mutant girl Laura (Dafne Keen) get to safe harbor—also takes cues from other time-honored film genres from Westerns to dystopian futuristic dramas.

Occasionally he worked outside the Western genre, as in WWII actioner "Fighting Coast Guard" (20063); "On the Loose" (1951), in which he had a supporting role as a doctor; "Son of Ali Baba," starring Tony Curtis and Piper Laurie; the Douglas Sirk-directed musical "Meet Me at the Fair" (1953); the bizarre comedy "Fireman Save My Child" (1954), originally intended for Abbott and Costello; and the Ethel Merman musical "There's No Business Like Show Business," which also starred Donald O'Connor and Marilyn Monroe.

This sci-fi actioner is insufferably sufferably dismal, depressing and dull.

"Trailer for Scott Adkins actioner Close Range", www.flickeringmyth.com, published 02-16-2015. Retrieved 10-15-2015. followed by the official trailer and theatrical poster on August 21.

He thinks that Lee steals the show from Lundgren and that the film showcases the range of the early departed actor. His final thought was that it was a fun B actioner.

His Estonian actioner Darkness in Tallinn is the most widely distributed Estonian film so far, and won the Silver Alexander in Thessaloniki and the Fassbinder prize in Mannheim. He currently lives in New York City and Beijing.

Production stills from Opapatika first surfaced in 2005, and the film spent much time in post-production.Full trailer for Thai supernatural actioner Opapatika, Twitchfilm.net; retrieved 2007-12-03 The title is derived from the Pali wording for the Tripitaka, the Buddhist scripture.

For all its jingoism, the film has its charms, particularly in the performances of an international cast."Leonard Maltin considered Jump into Hell, as a, "Neatly paced actioner of paratroopers involved in Indochina war."Maltin, Leonard. "Leonard Matin Movie Review:'Jump into Hell' (1955).

Derek Elley of Variety described Pyongyang Nalpharam as "a routine period actioner... with flashes of interest for Asiaphile auds", reminiscent of 1970s Hong Kong "chopsocky" films. He regarded the action choreography as being "adequate", and considered only a single sequence during a "masked entertainment" to have any "real verve".

Variety magazine said of the film, "The Last Hard Men is a fairly good actioner with handsome production values and some thoughtful overtones...The details of life at a crucial transition point in American history are well captured in the script and in the art direction."Variety magazine, June 1, 1976.

Publishers Weekly wrote that the novel succeeded despite a formulaic structure, calling it a "superior, satisfying cyberpunk noir adventure". Kirkus Reviews wrote that the novel was a good expansion of the worldbuilding which began in the first novel, praising it as "a thrilling cyberpunk actioner" while stating that it occasionally overdid its world-weary tone.

" Her performance in the song Pudichirikku made her a sex symbol among the navel fetish community."Who can forget the song Pudichirukku… from Saamy where she displays oodles of sensuousness and glamour in a leather mini skirt?" Bizhat called it:"taut, fully engaging actioner". Hindu wrote:"Kavithalaya's Saami should follow the Dhil, Dhool line.

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The film was panned by critics. On the film review website Rotten Tomatoes it currently holds an 11% "Rotten" with the general consensus being "Action and drama elements don't mix well in this clichéd actioner". The film holds an average score of 36 out of 100 based on 32 reviews on another film review site, Metacritic.

Nick Schager, of Variety, came to a similar conclusion, calling the issue of human trafficking (within the film) a "window dressing" for standard "revenge-driven" action. Schager also criticized Jaa's lack of fluency in English.Schager, Nick. "'Skin Trade' Review: Dolph Lundgren and Tony Jaa star in this tedious, formulaic actioner.", Variety, published August 5, 2015. Retrieved May 14, 2015.

Between the mid-1980s to late '90s, over 50 low-budget indie action films were produced. By the mid-1990s, the action genre in Thailand was in decline, causing several of the members to disband from the stunt team. Due to lack of interest, Panna was forced to discontinue producing action films momentarily, marking an end of the B-movie actioner era.

Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, reports that 57% of 35 surveyed critics gave the film a positive review, with an average rating of 5.74/10. Jessica Kiang of Variety called it a "ludicrous, violent, amusingly dumb sci-fi actioner". Kiang said that, although it is full of plot holes and Rapace's characters are thinly characterized, it is likely to become a cult film.

In 2007, Mr. O'Toole wrote and produced his first digital films: the zombie actioner Evilution and the thriller Basement Jack. His films have received numerous awards from U.S. and International film festivals. Outside the horror genre, Mr. O'Toole has co- produced the festival favorite Neo Ned and the action thriller Death Valley. O'Toole also served as the screenwriter for all three installments of the film adaptation of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged.

In 1967, Mario Abbiatico and Remo Salvinelli became part of the famous Gardone Val Trompia gun tradition when they founded FAMARS. Both the Salvinelli and the Abbiatico families had history in the craft going back several generations. Remo’s father, Felice Salvinelli, was an engraver in Brescia, where he first met Mario’s father, Giuseppe Abbiatico, who was an actioner. Initially, the company focused on smallbore shotguns ranging in quality and decoration.

"Film: '5 Fingers of Death'". The New York Times. 54. Variety called it "a Chinese actioner glossed with all the explosive trappings that make for a hit in its intended market ... Exquisitely-filmed and packed with colorful production values, direction by Cheng Chang Ho is powerful and direct and he gets top performances from cast headed by Lo Lieh, as the student, and Wang Ping as his beloved.""Film Reviews: 5 Fingers of Death". Variety.

" Bilge Ebiri of Vulture.com wrote: "Once the action starts - and it starts very quickly - The Raid is relentless, breathtaking in its sheer propulsive majesty. But it's also shot through with moments of bleak poetry amid the carnage." Robert Koehler of Variety praised the director: "Taking the genre to a higher level of intensity, the Welsh-born Evans continues what he started in previous Indonesia-set actioner "Merantau," but this picture will seal his cult status.

Elvis Mitchell of The New York Times described it as "grisly and dull, with few surprises". Dean Lamanna wrote in Cinefantastique that "the militarized monster movie tires under its own derivative weight." Variety wrote that the film was a "slightly above-average actioner that tries to compensate for tissue-thin plot with ever-more-grisly death sequences and impressive special effects." Made on a $28 million budget, Die Hard went on to gross over $140 million theatrically worldwide.

He seems to be now mostly retired from film, having made only the occasional appearance over the past fifteen years. Kristoff's most recent notable role was a small part in the Italian-Filipino Brigitte Nielsen actioner Doomsdayer (2000), directed by Michael J. Sarna and also starring former TV Tarzan actor Joe Lara and Udo Kier. According to an interview of Nick Nicholson on the French B-movie site Nanarland, Kristoff is currently managing a restaurant in the Philippines.

The PlayStation 2 version holds scores of 64% based on twenty-six reviews, and 59 out of 100 based on seventeen reviews. The Xbox version holds a score of 66% based on twenty-four reviews on GameRankings. IGN's Adam Tierney scored the Game Boy Advance version 6.5 out of 10, calling it "a pretty all-around solid actioner." He was impressed with the graphics and the isometric three-quarter top down view, but felt the game lacked a sense of grandeur.

On Rotten Tomatoes, Air Force One has an approval rating of 77%, based on 57 reviews, with an average score of 7.04/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "This late-period Harrison Ford actioner is full of palpable, if not entirely seamless, thrills." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 61 out of 100, based on 25 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale.

The Times of India gave 3.5 out of 5 stars stating "A emotional drama camouflaged in a commercial exterior, here's a film that's courageous to stand apart from slapstick madness. Trivikram's treatment of this plot scores over his indulgence as Jr NTR delivers another fine performance". India Today gave 3 out of 5 stars stating "Aravinda Sametha Veera Raghava is a commercial actioner backed by Trivikram's engaging script and Jr NTR's excellent performance. After the debacle of Pawan Kalyan-starrer Agnyaathavaasi, director Trivikram Srinivas has bounced back with Jr NTR's Aravinda Sametha Veera Raghava".

He subsequently joined Toho and worked as an assistant director to Akira Kurosawa, Mikio Naruse, Ishirō Honda, Yuzō Kawashima, Hirokawa Horimichi, Yasuki Chiba, Eizō Sugawa, Kengo Furusawa and Hideo Onchi. He was promoted to director for the 1969 suspense actioner Shinu ni wa Mada Hayai starring Toshio Kurosawa. His next film Hakuchū no Shūgeki (1970), with Kurosawa again taking the lead role, further established him as one of Toho's most distinctive action directors. He was an aficionado of jazz, which features prominently in the soundtracks of his films, and also an avid diver.

He also reported that there were cameras in the room with them. The show was not picked up. In 2009, the actioner Crank: High Voltage was released, which saw Haim sporting a blonde mullet alongside Jason Statham, Amy Smart and Dwight Yoakam. Haim completed two films scheduled for a 2010 release: the thriller American Sunset, in which he played a man who is abducted in the search for his missing wife, and Decisions, shot in December 2009, in which his character is a cop working with troubled kids.

Instead of working on the crux of the story, the directors decided to make a full-length feature film with lots of dance sequences and unreasonable fight scenes as the prime focus. And of course, one line of dialogue that Tiger uses throughout the film." Mohar Basu of Mid Day gave the film 2/5 saying, "There should be a genre of films called fan-pleasers, if there isn't one already. Munna Michael is precisely that by design – a dance- actioner that must keep its focus firmly on showcasing the dancing prowess of its leading man, Tiger Shroff.

Regarding the relationship between Cruise and Blunt's characters, Chang said "Liman handles it with a pleasing lightness of touch that extends to the proceedings as a whole." He also commended the visual effects of the "expertly designed Mimics" as well as Dion Beebe's cinematography. Todd McCarthy, writing for The Hollywood Reporter, said the film was "a narratively ambitious sci-fi actioner" that "takes a relatively playful attitude toward the familiar battle tropes". McCarthy said that, despite the humor, he found the time loop premise "tedious" and that "the final stretch becomes dramatically unconvincing and visually murky".

Larry Fitzmaurice from Entertainment Weekly praised the song's retro and modern stylistic blend, saying: "Tesfaye has bathed his sound in these night-lit textures via new wave's weightless pulse and the neon glow of 1980s synth-pop. The pedal-to- the-floor throb of 'Blinding Lights" sounds lovingly ripped from the iconic soundtrack to Nicolas Winding Refn's retro-actioner "Drive". “The Weeknd is meticulous, crafting the music with high-energy pop bravado, R&B; flourishes, and the kind of joie de vivre only the gorgeously icy synth-pop of a track like "Blinding Lights" can provide,” MTV News journalist Patrick Hosken observed.

A U.S. Coast Guard Douglas RD-1 Dolphin. Coast Guard was a period B film actioner, combining exciting coast guard rescues with a typical romantic sub-plot: "friends in love with girl, girl picks cad, romance in trouble, all is right in the end". An array of stock footage and model work is mixed in with live action. As one of the many serials, features and shorts that was based on the United States Coast Guard, the "B" feature was notable in that it featured a trio of rising stars, Randolph Scott, Ralph Bellamy (in another one of his "buddy" roles as the steady and dependable friend) and Frances Dee.

The Stinson L-5 Sentinel was prominently featured in Mission Over Korea. Mission Over Korea was a typical Fred F. Sears actioner, combining an array of stock footage with live action. As one of the many features that Sears helmed in a very short period, the film was a "B" feature, although it did star John Hodiak, Maureen O'Sullivan and future star John Derek. With principal photography done over a two-week span, from February 4–18, 1953 in California, the script was adapted to incorporate a portion of the 85,000 feet of location footage photographed by producer Robert Cohn and a camera crew near the Korean front lines.

The film was later renamed Bright. She also starred in the spy thriller Unlocked, with Michael Douglas, John Malkovich, Orlando Bloom, and Toni Collette; will lead the sci-fi/actioner Seven Sisters (released on Netflix under title "What Happened to Monday") opposite Glenn Close and Willem Dafoe and the sci-fi/thriller Rupture by Steven Shainberg. On 12 May 2015, it was announced that she will play opera singer Maria Callas in a biopic directed by Niki Caro. On 5 November 2015, it was announced that Rapace is in talks to portray Amy Winehouse in a new biopic about the late singer's life directed by Kirsten Sheridan.

Baron also appeared as the villain in Ruggero Deodato's sci-fi actioner The Atlantis Interceptors (1983), in Code Name: Wild Geese (1984), directed by Antonio Margheriti starring Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine and Klaus Kinski, and in Overdose (1987), by French softcore/exploitation director Jean-Marie Pallardy. Including Cantonese films, altogether he played in over 40 movies, as well as appearing in over 100 television commercials filmed in Asia for local, regional and international distribution, including a bit part in an episode of Dallas shot in Hong Kong. His last film was Guy Lee Thys' Belgian docudrama "Cruel Horizon" 1989 in which he played the lead role. Bruce Baron died from cancer in April 2013.

He described the film as a "lowbrow, lame-brained mash-up of buddies-on-patrol comedy and sci-fi actioner, held together (barely) by an endless string of penis jokes". Chang praised Ayoade's "mellow, nerdy-funky appeal [that represents] one of the [film's] few novel aspects". The Los Angeles Times Betsy Sharkey was more positive, stating that "the funniest stuff comes from the kind of situational misfires that can happen when dudes try to do things, like catch aliens, that they are clearly not cut out to do". She considered that Schaffer's previous experience directing short comic videos for Saturday Night Live was partially responsible for individual comic moments broken up by transitions where "things tend to fall apart".

He soon found a patron in Chancellor Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie, which among other things provided him power of attorney. Sweden then had three historiographers, namely Bogislaus Philipp von Chemnitz, Johannes Loccenius and Widekindi. After being granted any historical tables, Lumen chronographicum (1664–66), he seized undertake to, at the pleasure of the Chancellor, depicting Jacob De la Gardie "commendable actioner in Muscovite War", but produced at the same time (November 1666) the desire to write the history of Sweden from Gustav Vasa's death and continuera Seriem rerum, "unto our time." On October 28, 1668 was given him the royal command to write a complete history of the "gustavianske Vasa kings" to Gustavus Adolphus German expedition.

On November 10, 1973, producer/actor Earl Owensby began production on his first feature film, the revenge actioner Challenge. Directed by Martin Beck, the film starred Owensby as Frank Challenge, a Senatorial candidate driven to taking the law into his own hands after the murder of his family. Distributed in 1974 by Cinemation Industries to a reported 134 markets, Challenge proved to be quite profitable, leading directly to the establishment of E.O. Studios, a 200-acre motion picture facility located in Shelby, North Carolina.Earl Owensby Profile, Earl Owensby Studios In 1975, E.O. followed up Challenge with a sequel entitled The Brass Ring (with Owensby returning again as the vengeful hero Frank Challenge).

The series quickly become "immensely popular" despite its violent action. These kinds of programs presented ABC as having a "philosophy of counterprogramming against its competitors", offering a strong lineup of programs that contrasted with those seen on its rival networks, which helped Goldenson create a continuum of programming which bridged film and television. ABC's western series (as well as series such as the actioner Zorro) went up against and defeated the variety shows aired by NBC and CBS in the fall of 1957, and its detective shows did the same in the fall of 1959. To captivate audiences, short 66-minute series were scheduled a half-hour before their hour-long competition.

Hunter Killer is a 2018 American action thriller film directed by Donovan Marsh, written by Arne Schmidt and Jamie Moss, and based on the 2012 novel Firing Point by Don Keith and George Wallace. The film stars Gerard Butler, Gary Oldman, Michael Nyqvist (in one of his final film roles), Common, Linda Cardellini and Toby Stephens, and follows a submarine crew and a group of Navy SEALS who rescue the captured Russian President from a coup. Hunter Killer was released in the United States on October 26, 2018, by Summit Entertainment. A box-office flop, the film received mixed reviews from critics, who saw it as "an undemanding, by-the-numbers actioner".

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel grossed $33.1 million in North America and $52.9 million in other territories for a total gross of $86 million, against a budget of $10 million. The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel topped the UK box office during its first week, earning £3.8 million. It stayed top of the UK box office chart for a second week, grossing over £1.9 million and held on to the top spot for the third week in a row, fended off competition from latest Liam Neeson actioner, Run All Night, and claimed £1.4 million in total. In the United States, it opened strong at number three at the US box office with an estimated $8.6 million in its first weekend of release.

RISE OF THE FOOTSOLDIER 3: THE PAT TATE STORY (2017) is SKY UK's biggest Premium-VOD release ever at the time of the release. Fairbrass has major roles in two online motion capture games, Star Citizen and as George Mason in Under no Flag the single player mode in Battlefield V, due for release in 2018. Fairbrass also takes a lead role in award winning Director Gerard (HYENA) Johnson's next Film, the dark 2019 BIFA Nominated thriller MUSCLE and will again be reprising his role of Pat Tate in Rise of the Footsoldier 4 Marbella and the Scott Adkins actioner Avengement. Fairbrass's latest film Villain reaches No7 in the top ten U.S Films on iTunes and the critics choice in the New York Times.

Kristoff also co-wrote the script to Ninja's Force (1985) with Ken Watanabe (not to be confused with the more famous Ken Watanabe), another member of the Silver Star entourage. Don Gordon Bell was another of the ex-pat actors, one of Romano's best friends appearing in several of the films made by Kinevesa Films/Silver Star Films. He also appeared in some Italian productions made in the Philippines, such as the Vietnam war actioner Tornado (1983), directed by Antonio Margheriti and starring Giancarlo Prete and Antonio Marsina. Other Italian films he acted in were The Last Hunter, (1980), also directed by Margheriti, and Ferdinando Baldi films Warbus (1985), Ten Zan: The Ultimate Mission (1988), and Just A Damn Soldier (1988).

Sky Commando was a typical Fred F. Sears actioner, combining an array of stock footage with live action. As one of the many features that Sears helmed in a very short period, the film was a "B" feature, although it did star Duryea, Gifford and future TV star Mike Connors. With principal photography done over an eight-day span, March 16–23, 1953, most of the production work that remained involved merging the stock combat footage of USAF and USAAF action. The preponderance of stock footage was not always carefully integrated; Consolidated B-24 Liberator, Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, North American B-25 Mitchell, North American F-86 Sabre and Lockheed F-80 Shooting Star footage was, at times, jarringly spliced together, with a view of a bomber changing dramatically to a different aircraft.

The special effects for the creature are a combination of computer generated imagery, as well as puppetry and animatronics designed by Jim Henson's Creature Shop. The film received generally positive critical reviews, highlighting its high production values, cinematography, performances and Gans' atmospheric direction. At a $29 million budget, it was an international box office success, grossing over $70 million in worldwide theatrical release. The film also enjoyed commercial success in the United States; Universal Pictures paid $2 million to acquire the film's North American distribution rightsALISON JAMES, "$30 million 'Adventurer' venture: Gallic helmer Gans goes English for actioner," Variety (14 May 2001) and went on to gross $11.3 million in limited theatrical release, making it the second-highest-grossing French-language film in the United States since 1980.

A review in Free Press Journal lamented that the director "did not appear to be clear as to which route he wanted to take – the emotionally affecting immigrant experience or the thrill seeking actioner." adding that he fails to garner affect as he tries for both. "Given the storyline of illegal immigration and human trafficking, definitely much more could have been done with the technique and telling," the reviewer wrote. The review in Mumbai Mirror noted that the film exposes the naivety of those Indians, who leave for greener pastures in search of a better life, with dignity, despite an awry third act that threatens to dilute the strength of its hero. The reviewer praised the central character Barkha Madan for invoking empathy in the role of the illegal immigrant.

After his stint at Fox, Schiff reteamed with Roth at Disney in a production deal, where he produced Wes Anderson's critically acclaimed film, Rushmore. The film won two Film Independent Spirit Awards—Best Director and Best Supporting Actor for Murray. Schiff continued his long-standing affiliation with Roth at the executive’s new production firm, Revolution Studios, where he produced Maid in Manhattan, the hit romantic comedy starring Jennifer Lopez and Ralph Fiennes, and Mike Newell’s drama Mona Lisa Smile, starring Julia Roberts, Julia Styles and Kirsten Dunst. Schiff's producing credits also include The Air I Breathe, Numb, Green Street Hooligans, the 2004 remake of the 1970s classic actioner, Walking Tall, Solitary Man, The Truth About Emmanuel, the ensemble comedy Spin, and the Alaskan-set thriller, Into the Grizzly Maze.

In 2006, he played the main villain in the straight- to-video actioner Mercenary for Justice, opposite Steven Seagal. Smith was in the 2007 film American Gangster with Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe, in which he played the role of "Nate", Frank Lucas's army connection in Vietnam. Most recently he played the role of "Isaiah" in the 2016 film The Birth of a Nation, a film about the life of Nat Turner. Smith also had a recurring role in the hit HBO series Oz. Juan and John, written and performed by Guenveur Smith, is based on baseball's most famous fight--San Francisco Giants pitcher Juan Marichal clubbing Johnny Roseboro of the Los Angeles Dodgers with his bat during a 1965 battle for the pennant at Candlestick Park—which traumatized the playwright as a child.

In this area, Prior made his acting debut with a lead in the horror film Sledgehammer (1983 )and another one in the actioner Killzone (1985) both directed by his brother David. In 1987, for Action International Pictures, Prior worked again with a supporting role in Killer Workout and the lead in Deadly Prey. These effort started a long collaboration between them and the company, with Prior becoming one of their recurrent action star and his brother the most recurrent director. From that point on Prior continued working as an action actor until the late 1990s. Prior and his brother would go on to make together Hell on the Battleground (1989), Jungle Assault (1989), Future Zone (1990), The Final Sanction (1990), Maximum Breakout (1991), Raw Nerve (1991), Center of the Web (1992), Raw Justice (1994), and Mutant Species (1995).

" Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune awarded the same 2.5-star grade and criticized the "moralizing dialog" as well as "half-hearted martial arts battles" that "come off as a sop to the young kung-fu movie audience." Arthur D. Murphy of Variety noted it as "an okay Sam Peckinpah actioner ... Cast performs admirable against the programmer demands of the story." Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times wrote that the film "wastes the formidable talents of director Sam Peckinpah and James Caan, who heads a first-rate cast, on a trite and murky formula thriller plot usually relegated to the less ambitious TV movies." The Washington Post praised the film as "a disarmingly funny and sympathetic action-suspense melodrama" and noted, "Neither the ads nor the opening wave of reviews have given the picture much credit for humor, which happens to be its strongest attribute.

Edge singled out the upgrade from Normal to Hard difficulties as the point where the game transitions from "the great to the legendary", concluding that it was "difficult to recall another third-person actioner" that felt "so worth mastering". GamesRadar's Nathan Irvine also said that the game nailed "the epic scale of everything" that unfolded in front of the player and "manner in which it's delivered", believed it was better than God of War Collection, Devil May Cry 4, and Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2, and praised its "superb action" and humor. However, he said the only time its plot made sense was "right at the end", and complained about some of the game's "insanely frustrating" Quick Time Events (QTEs). (The review is for the 360 version, but GamesRadar uses the same score and text for the PS3 port .) Staff at GameSpot UK labelled the "Witch Time" mechanic a "cool move" and one of the two boss battles they fought were "pretty intense", and said that it was "easy to see the similarities" between the game and Devil May Cry.