Fatman Reviews
January 14, 2021
Cringle suffers from a crisis of conscience and "a loathing for a world that's forgotten" him. In another cinematic universe, this might as well be Martin Riggs' final form.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
January 1, 2021
This best improbable holiday movie finds Mel Gibson as a late stage capitalism bad economy Santa forced to produce for the Pentagon. While revealing a seemingly penitent Gibson deferring to his perhaps reluctant feminist side and scolding spouse of color.
December 28, 2020
Fatman is a tough story to penetrate and feel anything for any of the characters.
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| Original Score: 2/4
December 25, 2020
When it comes right down to it, Fatman makes us work too hard for the laughs.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
December 23, 2020
But for lack of truly inspired ideas, it winds up seeming more mean-spirited than subversive, an over-calculated stab at arch outrageousness.
December 12, 2020
I don't know what i was expecting, but I was not expecting to say Fatman is a good time.
December 10, 2020
Just like the bad gift that [one of the movie's characters] gets in Fatman, the movie is like a Christmas present that looks enticing on the outside, but once you unwrap it, you find out it's really just a disappointing and useless piece of coal.
December 9, 2020
Fatman is an exhausting, vile, depressingly boring movie which might have been kinda funny as a skit or short.
December 7, 2020
Mel Gibson plays a non-traditional Santa Claus in this R-rated dark comedy and I was here for it.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
December 6, 2020
The movie very quickly becomes a big mistake, with no wit apparent and a repugnant ultra-violent streak that should have been tamed.
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
December 6, 2020
Aren't most people expecting a campy action film with a wink at the camera? Not a mean spirited gritty Santa action movie like Fatman is? No thanks.
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| Original Score: 3/10
December 5, 2020
Humor is tossed in the air and lands on a sharp edge.
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| Original Score: 3/5
December 4, 2020
Its timing is perfect. If 2020 was a holiday movie, this would be it.
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| Original Score: 7.0
December 4, 2020
Gibson's grumpy performance (his best work in years) coupled with a smart script by directors Ian Nelms and Eshom Nelms make this a fun holiday production.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
December 3, 2020
A fun, oddly endearing, and action-fueled delight.
December 3, 2020
This sounds like a fun concept but unfortunately, Fatman never fully delivers because it focuses more on its not-so-exciting subplots.
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| Original Score: C+
December 3, 2020
Nelms' screenplay slyly comments on the holiday's superficial elements by cutting away the sentimental veneer.
December 1, 2020
A satisfyingly twisted yuletide revenge thriller, laced with equal parts Christmas cheer and bloody violence, that giddily turns any number of holiday tropes on their head.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
November 30, 2020
The film can never commit to a tone, its attempts at social satire don't land, and it's never funny.
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| Original Score: 2/5
November 29, 2020
As a movie, you get a feeling that the makers spent up all the budget by the time they got to the climax.