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Genre :

Action, Adventure

Release Date :

December 25, 2008

MPAA Rating :

PG-13

Director :

Frank Miller

Starring :

Gabriel Macht, Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Eva Mendes, Paz Vega, Sarah Paulson, Jaime King, Eric Balfour, Dan Lauria, Stana Katic, Johnny Simmons, Louis Lombardi, Meeghan Holaway

REVIEWS RATE: Critics Readers [Rate It]

“..wild and kind of funny..”

by Roger Moore [Orlando Sentinel]

“..uneven, but its campy adventure provides some amusing, escapist fun..”

by Claudia Puig [USA Today]

“..The action is not exciting, the humor is a little too cheesy, and the drama is half-baked..”

by James Berardinelli [Reelviews]

“..incredibly convoluted and intensely boring..”

by Colin Covert [Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune]

“..dispiriting..”

by Ty Burr [Boston Globe]

“..desperate, offensive and thoroughly misguided..”

by Jason Anderson [Toronto Star]

Reviewed by Chris Barsanti [Filmcritic.com]

Reviewed by Chris Kaltenbach [Baltimore Sun]

Reviewed by Liam Lacey [Globe and Mail]

Reviewed by Kyle Smith [New York Post]

Reviewed by Elizabeth Weitzman [NY Daily News]

Reviewed by Peter Hartlaub [San Francisco Chronicle]

Reviewed by A.O. Scott [NY Times]

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