30 Minutes or Less (2011)

All Critics (156) | Top Critics (39) | Fresh (70) | Rotten (86) | DVD (5)

The film contains a remarkable level of violence, yet never establishes a tone that would make it seem funny or truly shocking; the jokes flounder in an air of half-hearted spite.

December 6, 2011 Full Review

Ben Sachs

Chicago Reader

Top Critic

It's funny, clever and pacy to a fault, and the script more than satisfies its quota of decent zings.

September 14, 2011 Full Review

David Jenkins

Time Out

Top Critic

It never reconciles the meticulous intelligence needed to build the weaponry and the monstrous stupidity needed to use it.

August 22, 2011 Full Review | Comments (7)

Richard Brody

New Yorker

Top Critic

Probably has the approximate cultural staying power of its title.

August 17, 2011 Full Review

Meghan Keane

New York Observer

Top Critic

The dark, biting comedy often strays into territory that can be categorized as politically incorrect, but the result is funny, engaging, and at times a little disconcerting.

August 12, 2011 Full Review

James Berardinelli

ReelViews

Top Critic

The movie belongs to Ansari, who steals nearly every scene he is in with his jangly, nervous intensity.

August 12, 2011 Full Review | Comments (2)

Christopher Orr

The Atlantic

Top Critic

There's too much cheese, but there are still enough amusing action beats and funny one-liners to let one say "30 Minutes or Less" delivers, more or less on time.

January 9, 2013 Full Review

Roger Moore

McClatchy-Tribune News Service

30 Minutes Or Less has enough of both action and comedy to appeal to multiple demographics, and as far as crude comedies go it's a fun watch.

September 23, 2012 Full Review

Amy Curtis

We Got This Covered

This is a breezy, fun, and funny film that doesn't waste any time in getting its story told by propelling its characters into one crazy situation after another.

September 19, 2012 Full Review

Jeff Beck

Examiner.com

30 Minutes or Less lacks logic, and it doesn't make use of its title concept in any interesting way, but the film is funny, fast and entertaining through-and-through.

January 29, 2012 Full Review

R. L. Shaffer

IGN DVD

The movie unfurls without rhythm, momentum or visual flair, but at a furious pace.

December 28, 2011 Full Review

Greg Maki

Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)

A raunchy heist comedy with a pace as fast as its dialogue, '30 Minutes Or Less' will have you laughing out loud.

December 22, 2011 Full Review

Linda Cook

KWQC-TV (Iowa)

...there's simply never a point at which the film's one-dimensional characters become compelling enough to warrant all this action and mayhem...

November 25, 2011 Full Review

David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

A consistently funny, well acted and fantastically short - basically 80mins - little comedy that's more than deserving of your time.

September 19, 2011 Full Review

Charlie Lyne

Ultra Culture

30 Minutes or Less is almost as dumb as its wannabe criminal geniuses, but the film barrels along at such a pace - spraying expletives as it goes - that it doesn't matter that the plot is as battered as Nick's Mustang.

September 19, 2011 Full Review

Jason Best

Movie Talk

More frenetic than funny, the film bumbles along with three sets of characters endlessly swapping obscene insults.

September 18, 2011 Full Review

Philip French

Observer [UK]

Puerile, irritating and insultingly phallocentric.

September 16, 2011 Full Review | Comment (1)

Michael Leader

Little White Lies

It's like a live-action version of a vulgar, violent cartoon: It's cheerful, willfully subversive, speedy, and lightweight.

September 16, 2011 Full Review

Jeffrey M. Anderson

Common Sense Media

It's a pity that debut screenwriter Michael Diliberti could not think of any better ways in which to try to make the audience laugh.

September 16, 2011 Full Review

Graham Young

Birmingham Mail

Like a sort of laughter thong, it covers very little and doesn't save the blushes of anyone involved.

September 16, 2011 Full Review

Amber Wilkinson

Eye for Film

30 Minutes or Less has one of those screenplays that looks goodish on paper but is only a bit above average.

September 16, 2011 Full Review

Derek Malcolm

This is London

Everyone bumbles along and the actors go into overdrive trying to convince us that this is all terribly hilarious but most of the time they are fighting a losing battle.

September 16, 2011 Full Review

Allan Hunter

Daily Express

An entertaining enough distraction but not the must-see it might have been.

September 15, 2011 Full Review

Alex Zane

Sun Online

It's entirely ridiculous, but it gallops cheerfully along; everything is carried off with flair and ingenuity.

September 15, 2011 Full Review

Peter Bradshaw

Guardian [UK]

It all goes horribly wrong, with the characters and the audience united in anguish.

September 15, 2011 Full Review

Leo Robson

Financial Times

• 1. Dwayne: We're gonna hit him where it hurts.
  2. Travis: In his dick?
  3. Dwayne: No, in his pussy.
  4. Travis: ...
  – Submitted by Dylan C (14 months ago)
• 1. Cop Outside Bank: Lower your weapons and put your hands on your head... Aww shit.
  – Submitted by Jamaal H (15 months ago)
• 1. Chet: Not into rape, just into sliders.
  – Submitted by Bailey A (15 months ago)
• 1. Chet: Spraying our guns. Spraying our guns.Spraying our guns for the bank robbery. Cuz were going in with our plastic guns and the cops will shoot us in the face.
  – Submitted by Alex M (15 months ago)
• 1. Dwayne: I'm the one fucking this bitch, you're just holding the camera.
  – Submitted by Trevor J (16 months ago)
• 1. Nick: Hotlanta? You know I know a little bit about it from rap music, and uh...it sounds like a fucked up place.
  – Submitted by Kelly K (16 months ago)

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