Hit & Run Reviews
Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema
Hit & Run isn't always a smooth ride, but the quirks and misfires make it as distinctive as the actor behind many of the film's creative choices.
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| Original Score: B-
Big Hollywood
Hit & Run may stall early and often, but the Bell/Shepard screen chemistry serves as a nitrous boost.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Movie Chambers
I'll be darned if I didn't like the characters. They're fun, often unpredictable and reasonably humorous.
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| Original Score: C
ABC Radio (Australia)
Hit and Run has a bouncy, goofy charm.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)
It's 'Smokey and the Bandit' as conceived by a Quentin Tarantino wannabe.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Observer [UK]
It's highly entertaining with cameos by several of the director's pals and pit stops for delivering sub-Tarantino dialogue.
Irish Times
There is a lot of boring Clarksonian chatter about motorcars, but, inhibited by a modest budget, the stunts prove to be depressingly unspectacular.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Contactmusic.com
Audiences out for a bit of mindless fun will probably enjoy this raucous road movie, but only if they can look past comedy that relies on jokes about racism, sexism and homophobia.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Radio Times
The film's characterisation is hopelessly underdeveloped and an undercurrent of homophobia does little to make the experience any less tedious.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Sun Online
For a comedy the laughs are hard to find.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Guardian [UK]
It's amiable, but the more miles it clocks up, the more this film looks like a vanity vehicle for its co-director, writer and star, Dax Shepard.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Little White Lies
This whipsmart postmodern rom-com caper rides a fine line between road - and date - movie.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Daily Telegraph
Shepard's script suggests his chief pleasures in life are driving sports cars and joshing about homosexuals, and those of a similar mindset may manage to wring out more amusement from his film than I did.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Birmingham Post
Hit and Run is certainly hit and miss, but it had just about won me over by the time it ended.
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| Original Score: 3/5
ViewLondon
Enjoyable, fast-paced comedy-thriller with well written characters, decent chase sequences, a frequently funny script and superb performances from Shepard, Bell and Bradley Cooper.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Sky Movies
Dumb, noisy and not half as cool as it thinks it is, it's like being caught in a shouting match between half-cut rednecks at a Nascar meet.
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| Original Score: 2/5
HeyUGuys
A good-natured, if inconsequential, thrill ride. Shepard more than proves he's up to the task when it come to multitasking. It will be interesting to see what he does next time around.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Empire Magazine
There's the suggestion of a good comedy filmmaker here, but in trying out too many genres in one film Shepard winds up with something that never settles or fully engages.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Flix Capacitor
While Shepard deserves credit for pulling the whole thing together, Hit & Run is an uneven action-comedy which isn't particularly exciting or funny.
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| Original Score: 2/5
