Snitch Reviews
John Hanlon Reviews
Its greatest crime is that the film goes on for way too long and loses momentum halfway through the proceedings.
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| Original Score: 2/5
CraveOnline
A fun concept brought down to stultifyingly low levels by an interminable running time and a musical score that never changes its tone.
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| Original Score: 1/10
Examiner.com
Dwayne Johnson really tests the limits of his acting ability in Snitch. Its stale dialogue, the way emotion and action seems to be milked until the very end, and unintentionally humorous dialogue confine the film to its average restraints.
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| Original Score: 5.5/10
Slant Magazine
Snitch is the latest in a long line of films whose sole purpose is to flatten a major social problem into a pulp ideal for self-serious spectacle.
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| Original Score: 1/4
Top CriticThe film tries to paint in shades of gray with vague criticisms of the war on drugs, but the absurdity of its he-man Everyman plot ends up turning its moral palette a muddy brown.
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| Original Score: C-
Bullz-Eye.com
There have been worse movies this year, but none that are so miserably tedious that an actor's facial hair steals the show.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Las Vegas Weekly
Waugh is more interested in inspirational melodrama and clumsy social commentary than in rousing action.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Someone please get director Ric Roman Waugh a tripod!
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| Original Score: 2/4
Beliefnet
We never feel the sense of peril that would create some tension, and we miss the expected sense of satisfaction when no cans of whup-ass are opened.
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| Original Score: C
OK! Magazine
The incredibly moronic premise has no heft or momentum. Not a moment is believable and the whole thing just hurts.
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| Original Score: 1/4
Movie Chambers
A U.S. attorney cannot authorize the set up of a civilian drug sting. Can you imagine the liability concerns if something goes wrong? And, because this is Hollywood, you can bet plenty goes wrong.
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| Original Score: C-
Entertainment Spectrum
"Snitch" will offer a handful of excitement, but nothing that is worth rushing out for.
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| Original Score: 2/5
St. Paul Pioneer Press
The movie doesn't convince us that any of this stuff went down this way, but it did make me want to see the PBS "Frontline" episode that details what really happened.
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| Original Score: 2/4
The dialogue is preachy, the drama too earnest and the action kind of sluggish, though it's hard not to get a jolt when Johnson jumps behind the wheel.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Flixist.com
A bit of editing down and a lot less self-importance could have made this not only a compelling drama, but a compelling argument that Johnson could be more than just an action star.
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| Original Score: 57/100
The Scorecard Review
Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson isn't an 'ordinary man.' That's why he has a nickname and looks like a real-life superhero. That's just one problem with this film.
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| Original Score: 4/10
Screen International
The film's first half is weighed down by clichéd dialogue and clunky drama.
EntertainmentTell
A thriller that hints at gangbusters action, but delivers some of the weakest, most ineptly photographed action scenes in memory
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| Original Score: 2/5
PopMatters
The action feels awkward and incomplete while the dramatics are drawn out to the point of preposterousness.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Half crime thriller, half family drama, with a bit of legal and behind-prison-walls suspense thrown in, "Snitch" is like watching an elephant on ice: inelegant, but you admire the effort.
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| Original Score: 2/5
