Overview
Genre :
ThrillerRelease Date :
May 18, 2012 (Limited)MPAA Rating :
RDirector :
David WeaverStarring :
Samuel L. Jackson, Luke Kirby, Ruth Negga, Tom Wilkinson, Gil Bellows, Deborah Kara Unger, Tom Wilkinson, Aaron Poole, Tom McCamus, Martha Burns
REVIEWS RATE:
Critics 
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Review rate : C-
“..tto be fair, The Samaritan doesn't merit much of his effort..”
“..tto be fair, The Samaritan doesn't merit much of his effort..”
by Sam Adams [AV Club]
“..there are some complications, some melodrama, and then the game gets underway..”
by Stephen Whitty [Newark Star-Ledger]
Review rate : B-
“..the plotline gets a bit sloppy in its articulation of the big scam at hand..”
“..the plotline gets a bit sloppy in its articulation of the big scam at hand..”
by Cole Smithey [ColeSmithey.com]
“..the haphazard feeling of the narrative deflates any real tension..”
by Mark Olsen [Los Angeles Times]
“..the final resolution is perhaps a little hasty. But there's something here..”
by Roger Ebert [Chicago Sun-Times]
“..that status is boosted by overheated direction and an underwritten script that ignores the sole interesting element - the actual con - until the end..”
by Elizabeth Weitzman [New York Daily News]
“..other aspects feel rushed and unfocused: salvation pops up and fixes are instan..”
by Linda Barnard [Toronto Star]
“..its deliberate narrative pacing derails crucially in rushed climactic passages..”
by Kathleen Murphy [MSN Movies]
“..for a while, as comfortably pleasant as sipping on what once used to be your go-to drink..”
by Alison Willmore [Movieline]
“..every single element here feels borrowed..”
by Chris Barsanti [Film Journal International]
“..despite its exploitation ambitions, this Samaritan is good only for a last-ditch swerve into schmaltz..”
by Eric Hynes [Time Out New York]
“..concluding with a showdown and resolution marked by one implausible and unsatisfying been-here-done-that twist after another..”
by Nick Schager [Village Voice]
