One for the Money (2012)

All Critics (54) | Top Critics (14) | Fresh (1) | Rotten (53) | DVD (3)

An avalanche of grating big-hair-and-bad-accent New Joisey caricatures.

January 30, 2012 Full Review

Nick Schager

Time Out New York

Top Critic

An ungainly mix of flat-footed gumshoeing and strained attempts at hilarity, all delivered with an unconvincing Joizy vibe.

January 30, 2012 Full Review

Sheri Linden

Los Angeles Times

Top Critic

The movie has the by-the-numbers efficiency of a decent TV series, and about as much flavor.

January 28, 2012 Full Review

Mark Feeney

Boston Globe

Top Critic

There have been notable exceptions, but Heigl tends to imbue her characters with an off-putting mix of insecurity and abrasiveness. This film is a prime example.

January 27, 2012 Full Review | Comments (4)

Elizabeth Weitzman

New York Daily News

Top Critic

I guess I can't call the movie sexist as it was largely produced, directed and written by women. So I'll settle for calling it dull, corny and amateurish instead.

January 27, 2012 Full Review | Comments (11)

Stephen Whitty

Newark Star-Ledger

Top Critic

There is action of a sort -- a car blows up, shots are fired -- and what might pass for witty, sexy banter to someone who once overheard a conversation about an episode of Moonlighting.

January 27, 2012 Full Review | Comments (2)

A.O. Scott

New York Times

Top Critic

One doesn't need to have any familiarity with the Stephanie Plum novel series to immediately hear and see what an ill fit Katherine Heigl is for the role.

June 2, 2012 Full Review | Comments (2)

Michael Dequina

TheMovieReport.com

Light and fluffy as a cupcake, Katherine Heigl's many talents are truly wasted in this story based on the first of eighteen best-selling Stephanie Plum novels.

April 3, 2012 Full Review

Simon Weaving

Screenwize

Didn't Jennifer Aniston already do a bounty hunter movie? Talk about sloppy seconds.

March 23, 2012 Full Review | Comments (6)

Roger Moore

McClatchy-Tribune News Service

One For The Money is a paint-by-numbers chick-flick that'll make you laugh a few times but won't particularly enamour.

March 1, 2012 Full Review

Sam Bathe

Fan The Fire

Apart from the three girls behind me constantly shifting their legs so that it made my otherwise empty row feel as if I was in an earthquake, One For The Money is an utterly lifeless, joyless experience.

February 29, 2012 Full Review

Graham Young

Birmingham Post

Heigl deserves better than this.

February 28, 2012 Full Review | Comments (3)

Ed Whitfield

The Ooh Tray

Ultimately, it's further proof that Katherine Heigl picks her projects by stapling all potential scripts to a wall and throwing a dart.

February 25, 2012 Full Review

Shaun Munro

What Culture

The film miscasts Heigl and doesn't do much good for Debbie Reynolds as Grandma, either.

February 24, 2012 Full Review

This is London

Director Julie Anne Robinson never finds a convincing tone and ruins everything with over-emphatic comedy reaction shots and a music track that keeps telling us how funny everything is (it isn't).

February 23, 2012 Full Review

Christopher Tookey

Daily Mail [UK]

As bland and flavourless as movies come. Please God, no Two For The Show!

February 23, 2012 Full Review | Comments (2)

Dan Stewart

Little White Lies

Is there no stopping Katherine Heigl? Please.

February 20, 2012 Full Review

Siobhan Synnot

Scotsman

With yet another ho-hum run at the multiplexes, Katherine Heigl's big-screen resumé is fast looking like an insider's gag.

February 19, 2012 Full Review | Comments (3)

Ed Gibbs

The Sun Herald

Heigl's fine and there's some zingy dialogue, but the violence jars with the comedy and, despite being written and directed by women, it still comes off as needlessly sexist.

February 13, 2012 Full Review

Ken McIntyre

Total Film

The supposedly feisty Plum keeps following the lead of the two hunky men in her life. Scrape off the Elmore-Leonard-lite scuzz, and this is just a retroinactive rom-com.

February 9, 2012 Full Review

Brian Gibson

Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)

...a second-rate and consistently worthless Out of Sight knockoff...

February 4, 2012 Full Review | Comment (1)

David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

If the filmmakers can't be bothered to believe in the real-world implications of its premise, then why ever should we?

February 3, 2012 Full Review

Kimberley Jones

Austin Chronicle

Someday to be used in film schools as a textbook example of how not to adapt a best-selling novel for the screen, One for the Money is mis-cast, mis-scripted, and mis-directed in every category.

February 3, 2012 Full Review | Comments (7)

Nell Minow

Beliefnet

Compared to someone like Jennifer Lopez in Out of Sight, Stephanie is a total drip who needs to get her head on straight before she picks up a weapon again.

February 3, 2012 Full Review

Grae Drake

Movies.com

• 1. Joseph Morelli: Catch me if you can Cupcake!
  – Submitted by Lucy P (16 days ago)
• 1. Stephanie Plum: I'm naked.
  2. Ranger: I'm on my way.
  – Submitted by Sara B (15 months ago)
• 1. Connie: How are you with the lowlife?
  – Submitted by Susan Stevens R (15 months ago)
• 1. Stephanie Plum: Damn skippy!
  – Submitted by Eileen H (15 months ago)
• 1. Jackie: Lula, a snack?
  2. Lula: You always complainin. It's hot. I'm hungry.
  – Submitted by Robert B (15 months ago)
• 1. Lula: If you want information from Lula, you gon' have to bring her a snack.
  – Submitted by Robert B (15 months ago)

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