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Bullet to the Head (2013)

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Average Rating: 5/10
Reviews Counted: 127
Fresh: 60 | Rotten: 67

Bullet to the Head's unapologetically trashy thrills evoke memories of its star and director's proud cinematic pasts -- but sadly, those memories are just about all it has to offer.

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Average Rating: 4.8/10
Critic Reviews: 30
Fresh: 12 | Rotten: 18

Bullet to the Head's unapologetically trashy thrills evoke memories of its star and director's proud cinematic pasts -- but sadly, those memories are just about all it has to offer.

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Movie Info

Based on a graphic novel, Bullet to the Head tells the story of a New Orleans hitman (Stallone) and a DC cop (Kang) who form an alliance to bring down the killers of their respective partners. -- (C) Warner Bros

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Mystery & Suspense, Action & Adventure

Alessandro Camon

Jun 10, 2013

$9.5M

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All Critics (127) | Top Critics (30) | Fresh (60) | Rotten (67)

Hill's eye for back alley scuzz is as strong as ever, but the story, adapted from a French graphic novel by Alexis Nolent, is so die-cut it gives neither him nor Stallone anything to work with.

February 4, 2013 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader
Chicago Reader
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On its own degenerate terms, the movie works.

February 4, 2013 Full Review Source: Vulture
Vulture
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It's a series of fight scenes that build to a climax that is surprisingly unsatisfying in the way it ultimately plays out.

February 3, 2013 Full Review Source: ReelViews
ReelViews
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Sylvester Stallone shoots people in the face. That's it for subtext in this formula action swill. Why do I sound like I should expect more. Because the credits list the director as Walter Hill.

February 2, 2013 Full Review Source: Rolling Stone
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Bullet to the Head doesn't try to adapt its star to 2013. It just pretends that we're still living in 1986. And for 91 minutes, it just about works.

February 1, 2013 Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly
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Stallone can still be entertaining, but here he's got no character to play, nothing fun to say, and the craziest hair/hairpiece/scalp growth this side of John Travolta.

February 1, 2013 Full Review Source: The Wrap
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The roar dies into a hollow echo, the growl gets gutturally one-note and the grit becomes B-movie background. Has too scuzzy a heart to pump out a deep throb of action. Peel this one back and you get more pit than pulp.

May 6, 2013 Full Review Source: Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)
Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)

The film could be summed by its product placement for Bulleit Bourbon, treated like a rare luxury when it's actually $20 a bottle at Trader Joe's; director Walter Hill serves this inexpensive, everyday material with a serious flourish.

March 19, 2013 Full Review Source: MetroActive
MetroActive

At its ridiculous best Bullet reminds us why we liked Stallone in the first place. But time has moved on, for him and for us and there's a point where looking back this way stops being entertaining and starts to become sad.

March 18, 2013 Full Review Source: ComingSoon.net
ComingSoon.net

Walter Hill has lost none of his directorial prowess!

March 15, 2013 Full Review Source: Movies With Butter

What's it about? Some bad guys. And some other bad guys. And some badder guys. And bullets to the head, as though through repetition of the title in action we're meant to finally understand the platonic ideal of how to murder a person with a gun.

March 8, 2013 Full Review Source: Movies.com
Movies.com

A barely passable, if unmemorable, bit of action-heavy entertainment -- as long as you don't think too hard about the script's eye-rollingly contrived setup.

March 1, 2013 Full Review Source: Times-Picayune
Times-Picayune

Look, Stallone has a perky daughter. Will she end up tied to a chair in a disused refinery (or something)? You know it.

February 17, 2013 Full Review Source: Irish Times
Irish Times

... a star vehicle for Stallone first and foremost, giving him a potentially intriguing antihero character surrounded by a story that shoots blanks.

February 16, 2013 Full Review Source: Cinemalogue.com
Cinemalogue.com

Stallone still mumbles the lines, but his timing is pretty good and the jokes are well done. Violent as the film is, the special effects and stunts are impressive, especially the ax fight at the end.

February 9, 2013 Full Review Source: Tolucan Times
Tolucan Times

An okay action movie but sadly Stallone has entered into the "who cares" category.

February 9, 2013 Full Review Source: jackiekcooper.com
jackiekcooper.com

Stallone and Hill make the often-corny dialogue sound not only plausible but weirdly logical.

February 8, 2013 Full Review Source: East Bay Express
East Bay Express

With a cracked-asphalt voice, a shaved-wildebeest hide, the veined musculature of Swamp Thing and the apparent flexibility of a tree trunk, the aging Sylvester Stallone remains a commanding, amusing and somewhat awe-inspiring screen presence.

February 8, 2013 Full Review Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

Thanks to Hill's directorial brio and some hot-wired one liners, Stallone can still put bad folks out of their misery real fast.

February 7, 2013 Full Review Source: Birmingham Mail
Birmingham Mail

This is a very violent police action film, and that is all you can expect from it.

February 7, 2013 Full Review Source: Laramie Movie Scope
Laramie Movie Scope

Not a classic action film, but it's a decent genre entry and the fight scenes are worth the price of admission.


February 7, 2013 Full Review Source: Atlantic City Weekly
Atlantic City Weekly

The filmmakers must see this as idea laundering - if a movie comes from a French graphic novel inspired by American movies, then it's not really stolen moronic movie junk. It's French!

February 5, 2013 Full Review Source: honeycuttshollywood.com
honeycuttshollywood.com

It's not a terrible movie, merely a mediocre one.

February 5, 2013 Full Review Source: National Post
National Post

Don't bother with plot coherence or plausibility - if you're going to a Stallone film for logic, then you're in the wrong theater.

February 5, 2013 Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix
Boston Phoenix

More curdled nostalgia than cinematic excitement.

February 5, 2013 Full Review Source: One Guy's Opinion
One Guy's Opinion

Audience Reviews for Bullet to the Head

Revenge still works and so does this movie. Director, Walter Hill returns in over a decade and delivers one of his best films ever, it delivers his classic trademark of seriousness, action and dark humor that are still a winning combination. A skillfully crafted, stylish, cool and hard-boiled action-thriller. It's tough, intense, at times unsettling and shattering, it dose not forget who these characters are and what they do. And a great set of characters they are, the cast is solid and deliver the goods. Sylvester Stallone is a powerhouse, he gives a strong and terrific performance, he still proves he can do more than most young action heroes can and has a blast doing it. Sung Kang is exceptional. Kang and Stallone have some great chemistry in their scenes. Jason Momoa is excellent. Momoa and Stallone have some great and well-crafted fight scenes. It's an adrenaline-soaked action-packed thrill-ride from start to finish. A heart-pounding, wickedly funny and very entertaining movie. I loved this movie.
December 30, 2011
allan913

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This movie thinks we're living in the 1980s and just wants to be a simple, shoot em' up action flick with Stallone. This would be fine, if we weren't living in 2013 where we've seen this film 100 times before. Jason Momoa was good though.
February 12, 2013
Liam Gadd

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