Parker Reviews
Spectrum (St. George, Utah)
Hackford brings a sense of style and sure-handedness to the proceedings that is uncommon for films of this genre.
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| Original Score: B
HeyUGuys
Parker is well executed, ultimately entertaining and totally consumable but hardly groundbreaking as action thrillers go.
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| Original Score: 4/5
The Ooh Tray
Statham puts the fun back into discriminate, pornographic violence.
Radio Times
The film has some bone-crunchingly good action sequences, one decent one-liner and it's all daftly watchable, but one suspects that this is more of a career high point for Statham than for Hackford.
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| Original Score: 3/5
This is London
Works well enough to prove [Statham] has more than physically demanding stunts in him.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Contactmusic.com
Far better made than it has any right to be, this cheesy 70s-style thriller is given a thoroughly engaging kick by veteran filmmaker Hackford working outside his usual dramatic genre.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
TheShiznit.co.uk
Slick, refined and so polished you can damn near make out your reflection on Statham's forehead.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Sky Movies
Under Taylor Hackford's efficient direction, Parker delivers on all counts.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Top CriticOverall, it gets by, but bets are hedged when single-minded efficiency and ice in the veins would have been enough.
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| Original Score: 3/5
What Culture
A moderately entertaining, no-frills crime caper shot through with enthusiasm by its talented cast.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Daily Star
It does sag in the middle but its witty enough to make realise how charmless the latest Die Hard film is.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Empire Magazine
Like Parker's robberies, it isn't entirely successful, but Statham and Lopez make enticingly mismatched partners in crime.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Killer Movie Reviews
not masterpiece, but it's fun, it's clever, and it manages several surprises as Statham's cinematic persona becomes a man of brains as well as muscle
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| Original Score: 3/5
Total Film
He might have lost his edge, but Parker hasn't mellowed in his old age. A sunny, silly, violent revenger that puts Statham in good company.
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| Original Score: 3/5
A cool, violent, efficient adaptation of the taciturn anti-hero (the creation of Donald E. Westlake, writing as Richard Stark), who's out to restore order in a bloody world in his own bloody way.
Willamette Week
Twenty years later, it turns out that Statham may be the last real action hero.
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| Original Score: C+
Tolucan Times
Implausibly violent and burdened by the pace destroying presence of Jennifer Lopez, it's still an entertaining addition to the vengeance genre, thanks to Statham.
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| Original Score: 7/10
ScreenRant
Short on standard Statham action, Parker is an unremarkable but (mostly) satisfactory crime tale worth checking out.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
ScreenCrush
A B-picture in the classic mold: unambitious but precise.
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| Original Score: 7/10
Poster quote: "Parker," a film that's a little better than you'd expect!
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| Original Score: C+
