Bullet to the Head Reviews
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
Movies With Butter
Walter Hill has lost none of his directorial prowess!
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
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
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
TV Guide's Movie Guide
This is hard-R action done old-school style. If that's your game, then gather up and throw in.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Film Journal International
Sylvester Stallone plays to his base in a gratifying return to the action genre
Schmoes Know
Jason Mamoa also impressed me as the villain; all his sins for "Conan the Barbarian" are forgiven and hopefully the climactic axe fight will prove to Stallone that we have a new Expendable cast member the next time around.
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| Original Score: 3/5
tonymacklin.net
Bullet to the Head is a blunt movie with a blunt star. It's also bluntly entertaining.
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| Original Score: 2.0/5
Top CriticOn its own degenerate terms, the movie works.
CinemaDope
Stallone is back with a vengeance. As Jimmy Bobo, New Orleans hitman, he scores his most efficient adrenalin rush since First Blood ... Combines Eastern Promises violence and the buddy banter of 48 HRS.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Mania.com
Bullet to the Head definitely qualifies as a guilty pleasure, but if you can't enjoy the guilty ones, you've missed the whole point of Stallone's career.
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| Original Score: B
AALBC.com
Vintage Sly in his best outing since Cop Land!
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| Original Score: 4/4
Willamette Week
Carried out with a sort of kinetic grace that betrays its makers' experience within the genre.
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| Original Score: C+
New England Movies Weekly
Watching the movie won't be fatal for those who enjoy fast-paced and not very complex action movies. For those longing for something more, it's likely to be a long wait.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
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.
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| Original Score: B
