David Nusair Reel Film Reviews Mar 20, 2024 2.5/4

...a padded-out endeavor that fares quite well in its opening and closing stretches but strains to sustain one’s interest in its convoluted midsection...

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Mike Massie Gone With The Twins Dec 4, 2020 2/10

It's not overly violent, exploitive, gratuitous, or edgy in any manner and the story is severely lacking creativity.

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Richard Propes TheIndependentCritic.com Sep 19, 2020 1.5/4.0

John J. McLaughlin's script is laughably bad.

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Debbie Lynn Elias Behind The Lens Nov 27, 2019

Be it on the printed page or on the silver screen, Parker -- and diamonds -- are a girl's (and guy's) best friend!

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Chris Fennell CineVue Feb 9, 2019 3/5

Director Taylor Hackford is a schooled Hollywood veteran making his first action movie and, unlike the prefix of his surname might suggest, is experienced enough to adroitly balance chaos and coherence.

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Jennifer Heaton Alternative Lens Nov 1, 2018 3/10

The only reason to watch this movie is to laugh at Statham's hilarious attempt at a Southern accent, and even that isn't that funny after a while.

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Larushka Ivan-Zadeh metro.co.uk Sep 5, 2017

Poor J-Lo: there was a time when she co-starred with George Clooney, but 15 years on from Out Of Sight she's just a third wheel in this uninspired vengeance caper wherein The Stath is shafted by the Mob and vows payback.

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Eric D. Snider EricDSnider.com Jul 13, 2013 C+

As a tasty but un-nourishing rehash, it's not bad.

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Margot Harrison Seven Days (VT) May 22, 2013 4/10

The movie seems to suffer from a misguided attempt to chase the female demo.

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Phil Villarreal COED.com May 21, 2013 3/4

The action flick doesn't do much to wow you, but keeps things exciting.

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Nick Rogers Midwest Film Journal May 20, 2013 1.5/5

Calling "Parker" run-of-the-mill insults the pleasures of the potboilers it's trying to emulate. It feels like the product of misfits who broke into a mill shuttered on the edge of town and fired up the machines without understanding how they work.

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Bruce Bennett Spectrum (St. George, Utah) Apr 23, 2013 B

Hackford brings a sense of style and sure-handedness to the proceedings that is uncommon for films of this genre.

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Lisa Giles-Keddie HeyUGuys Apr 15, 2013 4/5

Parker is well executed, ultimately entertaining and totally consumable but hardly groundbreaking as action thrillers go.

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Ed Whitfield The Ooh Tray Mar 14, 2013

Statham puts the fun back into discriminate, pornographic violence.

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Graham Young Birmingham Post Mar 13, 2013 2/5

If Statham harbours ambitions of making a career-defining action thriller, Parker has to be seen as another opportunity lost.

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Dave White Movies.com Mar 9, 2013 1.5

...to see [Lopez] wasted here, forced to behave girlishly and neurotically and eventually become a hostage, is insulting.

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Donald Clarke Irish Times Mar 9, 2013 1/5

We like you, Jason. You're perfectly acceptable in near-silent, pseudo-Asian action nonsense. But you, sir, are no Lee Marvin.

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Graeme Virtue The List Mar 8, 2013 2/5

Hackford approaches his task as if he's seen one of the duffer Elmore Leonard movie adaptations of recent years, or at least had one described to him.

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David Aldridge Radio Times Mar 8, 2013 3/5

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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Derek Malcolm London Evening Standard Mar 8, 2013 3/5

Works well enough to prove [Statham] has more than physically demanding stunts in him.

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