Critic Reviews
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Variety Brian Lowry
It's been done countless times before ("The Equalizer," perhaps foremost, comes to mind), but Elliott's no-nonsense performance manages to render this a cathartic exercise in old-style vengeance. |
| 58 |
Entertainment Weekly Jeff Jensen
Ever wondered what a mediocre season of 24 would look like compressed into two hours? [7 Apr 2006, p.57] |
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Hollywood Reporter Ray Richmond
Moody, stylish and sometimes incomprehensible.... But what saves the day at least in part is Elliott, who has a charismatic way of rising above even so-so material. |
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The New York Times Anita Gates
"Avenger" strives hard to create atmosphere with insistent, percussive music and self-conscious camerawork... The film might have done better to concentrate on character development or more forceful dialogue. |
| 30 |
New York Magazine John Leonard
Timothy Hutton and James Cromwell ought to be interesting as CIA heavies. But Hutton was better in the 1998 Showtime movie Aldrich Ames: Traitor Within... And... Cromwell... doubtless misses the brains at Six Feet Under. |
| 25 |
New York Daily News David Hinckley
The improbabilities in the story pile up until the drama collapses. |
| 20 |
Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert
The plotting is so nonsensical you'll have to work to keep yourself from thinking -- if you don't change the channel, of course. |
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