Matt Oakes Silver Screen Riot Oct 14, 2026 C-

'Self/Less' turns tail on its high concept premise to become a lifeless action film that features no action scenes worth noting.

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Don Shanahan Every Movie Has a Lesson Jul 28, 2025 1/5

Borrowing all kinds of pieces and ideas from better, more coherent, and more menacing science fiction and action films, "Self/less" blows any attempt at being a compelling thriller at each supposed twist and turn it seems fit to fashion.

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Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review Jun 9, 2022 1.5/4

Tarsem loses his audience in actionized nonsense, leaving the story's best ideas to remain under-developed, if developed at all.

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Mike Massie Gone With The Twins Dec 4, 2020 5/10

What should have been a tale of slowly uncorrupting a callous, wayward soul becomes a standard sci-fi body-swapping yarn full of obligatory action sequences.

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Kathi Maio The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Mar 11, 2020

I do wonder what Singh and writers Alex and David Pastor might have done if they had avoided the trite, explosive tropes of an action film for something that actually touched upon the many issues raised by their basic body swap plot...

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Brandon Davis ComicBook.com Nov 13, 2019 6.5/10

Self/less falls a bit short of what it could have been but still manages to deliver a thrilling action movie. Perhaps it would have been more suspenseful had we invested in the characters.

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Phil W. Bayles One Room With A View May 7, 2019 2/5

Ryan Reynolds makes most films he's in at least worth a watch, but even he can't hide the fact that Self/less is a brain/less and life/less movie.

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Paula Fleri-Soler Times of Malta Feb 21, 2019

The film-makers eschew any attempt to tackle the deep themes the storyline initially throws up.

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Abbie Bernstein Assignment X Dec 14, 2018 C

Self/less turns into a generic chase film, but the really sad aspect of it is that we can see the potential for something honestly thought-provoking and moving that the execution destroys before it can blossom.

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Debbie Baldwin Ladue News Nov 14, 2018 7/10

Reynolds is fantastic as the morally conflicted hero, a fascinating combination of Hamlet and Hulk; and the supporting cast, including Goode, Kingsley and the always engaging Victor Garber, is spot on.

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Deirdre Crimmins Cinematic Essential Aug 30, 2018 6/10

It is a messy film, with many points of interest, multiple sources for character motivation, and frantic sways between emotion and action.

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Pamela Powell Daily Journal (Kankakee, IL) Aug 21, 2018 2/4

A high action, shoot 'em up flick that bombards your senses as well as your common sense.

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Robert Kojder Flickering Myth Dec 3, 2017 2/5

Self/less is a movie with ideas that are disappointingly traded in for a series of bland action sequences

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Matthew Bond The Mail on Sunday (UK) Oct 30, 2017 3/5

Don't expect lofty explorations of the nature of the individual; just shoot-outs and car chases.

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Sarah Marrs Lainey Gossip Oct 16, 2017

This movie is a complete waste of time and no one should see it.

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M. Faust The Public (Buffalo) Oct 11, 2017

Self/less is the most banal kind of science fiction, with none of its rehashed ideas developed in any but the most cursory way.

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Danielle Riendeau Polygon Jun 2, 2017

When read as a high-octane action movie, Self/less has its moments. Just don't think too hard about any of them, or you, too, might need pills to keep it all together.

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Alex Lines Film Inquiry Jan 9, 2017

Self/Less is a film which is watchable to a degree, if you ignore the overall plot and have it on in the background.

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Kaori Shoji Japan Times Aug 31, 2016 2.5/5

The story never manages to convince us that Damian may be at times changing because of some residual sense of Mark, and it never defines the moment when Damian decides to become a decent human being.

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J. Olson Cinemixtape Apr 17, 2016 1.5/5

Part debacle, part footnote, sure to remind viewers of the better films they could be watching if they weren't such lousy decision makers.

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