Hit & Run Reviews

While Shepard deserves credit for pulling the whole thing together, Hit & Run is an uneven action-comedy which isn't particularly exciting or funny.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

The talented cast is game and deserves better, especially Cooper, who is saddled with a dreadlocked fright wig that gives the impression he is performing all his scenes with a spongy blond octopus sitting on his head.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/10

Far more frustrating than the film's banally conventional plot structure is its characters' lack of depth.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4

There is a lot of boring Clarksonian chatter about motorcars, but, inhibited by a modest budget, the stunts prove to be depressingly unspectacular.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Earplugs, please. And wake me when it's over.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4

This is neither funny nor suspenseful, but it does feature some cool-looking cars, and Tom Arnold delivers some decent pratfalls as an accident-prone man.

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More hit and miss.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

It feels like writer, co-director and star Dax Shepard has unleashed some kind of freakish Franken-film on movie-goers.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

Bell's usual comic flintiness goes soft as she moons over Shepard, while he makes liberal use of his puppy-dog eyes and "What, me worry?" demeanor.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/10

...stands as a monument to the catastrophic downside of the auteur theory.

Full Review | Original Score: D

It's like Mozart being interpreted by someone who's tone-deaf.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

The script is slapdash and haphazard, seemingly thrown together based on whichever of their friends was available for a day of shooting.

Full Review | Original Score: C

With so many lazy and phoned-in movies out there, it's uniquely frustrating to see Shepard come so close to his lofty goals and still fall short.

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"Hit & Run" is merely the latest picture, more modestly scaled than most, to give the catch-all notion of the B movie a bad name, deserving of a new category: the D movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

For a comedy the laughs are hard to find.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

If "Hit and Run" ultimately proves too slapdash to recommend, it does provide Dax Shepard with a fine platform for his likeably nonchalant sensibility.

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The worst.

Full Review | Original Score: 0/5

Lackluster, inane and witless with too many jokes that fall flat.

Full Review | Original Score: 5.25/10

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

In Hit & Run the talk is better than the torque.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5