Average Rating: 3.5/10
Reviews Counted: 25
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 21
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Average Rating: 3.2/10
Critic Reviews: 11
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 9
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Actor-comedian-talk show host Keenen Ivory Wayans stars in his own action thriller screenplay about a war hero who becomes the fall guy in a frame-up. During the Persian Gulf War, U.S. Marine Sgt. James Dunn (Wayans) refuses to shoot a young shepherd, struggles with a superior officer, and winds up with a murder conviction. Sentenced to death in a military prison, Dunn is rescued from a prisoner-transport bus and selected for a special covert "Black Sheep" unit commanded by Lt. Col. Grant Casey
Oct 10, 1997 Wide
Sep 4, 2001
New Line Home Entertainment
All Critics (27) | Top Critics (11) | Fresh (4) | Rotten (21) | DVD (2)
Keenen Ivory Wayans ... is said to have done some of the research for his story on the Internet, which is just one more reason to fear the influence of this technological monster.
Blandly generic and transparently derivative, pic appears to have been cobbled together from bits and pieces of earlier, better thrillers.
Wayans ... has the physique for action heroics, but he has the soul of a comedian.
Aside from a quirky performance by Jon Voight and a couple of well-executed action sequences, there's little to distinguish this Keenen Ivory Wayans production from dozens of other assassination-conspiracy thrillers.
Not Bad.
Not only is the screenplay for Most Wanted laughably absurd, but it contains line after line of the worst dialogue available in any film currently on a multiplex screen.
Wayans looks the action hero: buff, cool, and stoic, but in straying from his normal comedic persona he also strips himself of any charm and personality.
Weak action movie. Not enough thrills to elevate the totally average story.
The result is an all-around competence that seems more than the sum of its parts.
The good news is that he infuses the potentially dry, formulaic plot with comedy. The bad news is that it's a by-the-numbers production.
The movie is a conspiracy thriller with plenty of action scenes but not much in the way of tension or excitement.
Most Wanted is an overly familiar B-grade action flick...
This is a pretty decent action film, not heard of it before but it's pretty good if it was a straight to DVD release. The first 10 minutes are almost identical to Shooter released this year and the story is very similar. If you enjoyed that you should like this......any film with Jon Voight as the bad guy is worth
November 24, 2007Super Reviewer
decent flick
January 29, 2007
Super Reviewer
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