Andrea Gronvall Chicago Reader Mar 25, 2020

The producers must think this drivel is what their senior target audience wants, but only someone who's lost an appetite for real life could find any entertainment in it.

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Francis X. Friel Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) Mar 21, 2019 2/5

Scripts this bad will sometimes seem fun with enough enthusiasm behind or in front of the camera, but the star power on display isn't enough to make this anything but a (hopefully) forgettable misstep for all involved.

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Allen Adams The Maine Edge Feb 8, 2019 0/5

Just Getting Started never actually gets started, sputtering along until it finally loses steam and creaks to a predictable conclusion. It isn't funny, it isn't engaging and it just isn't any good.

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Jim Lane Sacramento News & Review Dec 21, 2017 1/5

The movie is a ghastly, ramshackle mess, lurching from gag to clunking gag and exacerbated by Barry Peterson's harsh cinematography, making everyone look considerably older than they are.

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Margot Harrison Seven Days (VT) Dec 15, 2017 1/5

... writer-director Ron Shelton is a long way from the cerebral wit of his Bull Durham heyday.

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Sandie Angulo Chen Common Sense Media Dec 15, 2017 1/5

Unfunny action comedy wastes great cast; violence, language.

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Jeff Simon Buffalo News Dec 14, 2017 1/4

Among the wisest things ever said about old age will always be the immortal dictum of Bette Davis: "Old age ain't for sissies." It also ain't for people whose skills have vanished completely but are pretending they haven't.

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Ben Sachs Chicago Reader Dec 14, 2017

The climactic 20 minutes of Just Getting Started are so lazily directed that I wondered why Shelton bothered trying to put action into the movie at all.

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Marc Savlov Austin Chronicle Dec 14, 2017 0.5/5

If this is what the "golden years" are going to be like, count me out.

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Linda Cook Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) Dec 13, 2017 .5/4

Not even two Oscar winners can save this garbage.

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Ignatiy Vishnevetsky AV Club Dec 13, 2017 C-

Dramatically and comically impotent.

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A.O. Scott New York Times Dec 12, 2017

This wheezy romantic caper ... inspires little more than melancholy reminiscences of Mr. Shelton's earlier work.

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Susan Granger SSG Syndicate Dec 9, 2017 5/10

The problem with this tepid, senior-centric Christmas comedy is that it never really gets going. It's seasonal sludge.

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Luke Y. Thompson Forbes Dec 9, 2017

...nobody -- not the audience, and certainly not the cast -- deserves a clunker like this.

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Susan Wloszczyna RogerEbert.com Dec 8, 2017 1/4

A rather lazy boondoggle by Shelton, who waited 14 years to direct again and didn't bother to make it worthwhile.

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Bill Zwecker Chicago Sun-Times Dec 8, 2017 1/4

Just Getting Started simply never does get started. It's D.O.A.

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Joe Leydon Variety Dec 8, 2017

Ron Shelton's lame comedy is an utterly useless misfire that brings out the worst in all parties involved.

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Stephen Farber The Hollywood Reporter Dec 8, 2017

The film is ingratiating enough, but its main value is to make us eager for another, more substantial Shelton movie long before another decade has slipped by.

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Kimber Myers Los Angeles Times Dec 8, 2017

Even a cast with this many award wins and nominations can't salvage a script that will have viewers audibly sighing, rather than laughing.

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Dan Callahan TheWrap Dec 8, 2017

This mild and dawdling picture is the sort of trifle meant for a retirement-age audience who just want to spend a pleasant and uneventful hour-and-a-half with a few name actors of a certain age. There's very little comedy here and even less action.

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