Bullet to the Head Reviews
Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)
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.
MetroActive
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.
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| Original Score: 3/5
ComingSoon.net
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.
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| Original Score: 6/10
Movies With Butter
Walter Hill has lost none of his directorial prowess!
Movies.com
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.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Times-Picayune
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.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Irish Times
Look, Stallone has a perky daughter. Will she end up tied to a chair in a disused refinery (or something)? You know it.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Cinemalogue.com
... a star vehicle for Stallone first and foremost, giving him a potentially intriguing antihero character surrounded by a story that shoots blanks.
Tolucan Times
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.
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| Original Score: 7/10
jackiekcooper.com
An okay action movie but sadly Stallone has entered into the "who cares" category.
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| Original Score: 4/10
East Bay Express
Stallone and Hill make the often-corny dialogue sound not only plausible but weirdly logical.
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
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.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Birmingham Mail
Thanks to Hill's directorial brio and some hot-wired one liners, Stallone can still put bad folks out of their misery real fast.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Laramie Movie Scope
This is a very violent police action film, and that is all you can expect from it.
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| Original Score: C+
Atlantic City Weekly
Not a classic action film, but it's a decent genre entry and the fight scenes are worth the price of admission.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
honeycuttshollywood.com
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!
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| Original Score: 5
National Post
It's not a terrible movie, merely a mediocre one.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Boston Phoenix
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.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
One Guy's Opinion
More curdled nostalgia than cinematic excitement.
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| Original Score: D+
Top CriticHill'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.
