The Samaritan Reviews

Movie Reviews

• tto be fair, The Samaritan doesn't merit much of his effort

  Review rate : C- by Sam Adams [AV Club ]

• there are some complications, some melodrama, and then the game gets underway

  by Stephen Whitty [Newark Star-Ledger ]

• the plotline gets a bit sloppy in its articulation of the big scam at hand

  Review rate : B- 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 ]

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