Gangster Squad Reviews

Although it's blunt and brisk in its own inoffensive way, "Gangster Squad" is meathead cinema - the sort that cuts hard from a splattered brain to spatula-pressed hamburger. Unlike that grilled patty, the movie is mostly sizzle, little steak.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Makes 1991′s "Mobsters" look like "The Godfather" in comparison.

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Ruben Fleischer's Gangster Squad attempts to recreate mobster magic, but ends up fumbling into an endless amount of clichés and some horrid digital photography to boot.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

While pretty and often entertaining, Gangster Squad's a violent urban western that gets lost in the fog of homage.

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Those looking for the depth and complexity of the best of the genre are in the wrong place, but take Gangster Squad for what it is and it's not a bad way to spend an evening.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10

Do not try to fight off the running "this is the City of Angels" commentary; you will lose. Here, the good guys win, the bad guys earn their comeuppance, the dames look pretty and the dopey dialogue shoves a grapefruit in your face and shuts you up.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

The end result is a passable - just barely - thriller that benefits substantially from the efforts of its star-heavy cast...

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Gangster Squad verges on a parody of hard-boiled noir in the vein of the Scary Movie/Date Movie/Epic Movie films, only with real A-list star power; it's a funny old mixture.

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A violent and cartoonish take on the '40s gangster scene in LA.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

It should all be a lot more fun than it is, or at least as rollicking as "Zombieland," Fleischer's clever 2009 outing. Some pious soul-searching near the end is altogether insufferable.

Full Review | Original Score: **

Gangster Squad looks the part, but it's so superficial it practically evaporates before our eyes.

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Mistura de Os Intocáveis, Los Angeles - Cidade Proibida e Scooby-Doo.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

It's fitting that 'Gangster' Squad deals with crime because charging admission to this torpid film is robbery.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

Will it win any awards for 2013? Well, no. But 'Gangster Squad,' a shoot-'em-up nod to pulp thrillers, will provide solid entertainment for fans of crime dramas.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

In spite of heavy gunfire, Gangster Squad misses

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All style and pose devoid of soul.

Full Review | Original Score: C-

Comes off as a hollow masquerade, play-acting at machismo for nearly two hours. Along with the furniture tossed in fits of rage, there are empty flourishes of neo-noir style, rote action sequences, and little danger for our hardboiled heroes.

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Brash, loud & risibly anachronistic, Gangster Squad is flashier than a mobster's suit, but if you're not too fussy about finesse then this stylised crime film is a hugely entertaining cops 'n crooks romp through a cartoon-like version of 1940s LA history.

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High entertainment this is not, but as a period-driven action picture loosely based on a tumultuous time in Los Angeles' history, it's a strangely entertaining and bonkers experience.

Full Review | Original Score: B-

Re-edited in the wake of the Aurora massacre, the film definitely misses its excised Grauman's Chinese Theatre shootout, which might have helped justify its movie-obsessed unreality.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4