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05/17/13 |
Moderate |
 "...for its first half, the film is pretty solid -- absorbing, suspenseful, even poignant.... Unfortunately, it's the action that's generic and it gradually takes over the story." |
| 2. |
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05/10/13 |
Poor |
 "The problem isn't unoriginality, but incompetence.... goes from being merely lousy to stupendously, lifeforce-suppressingly awful." |
| 3. |
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05/10/13 |
Moderate |
 "...pleasant, if inane... helped along by a likable cast that's clearly having fun.... the comic setpieces feel divorced from one another, and oddly manufactured." |
| 4. |
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05/03/13 |
Good |
 "There are so many good things in the film that one wonders why the movie as a whole doesn't quite work.... Shannon is incapable of being mundane, or anonymous..." |
| 5. |
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04/26/13 |
Weak |
 "...a 'wasted opportunity' would be a good way to describe the entirety of this tepid, inoffensive trifle." |
| 6. |
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04/12/13 |
Good |
 "...often exciting, and just as often shallow and ham-handed... the film works, because it practices what it preaches: If you're good at baseball, nothing else really matters." |
| 7. |
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04/05/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Rough but heartfelt... the kind of film you're glad still exists, even though you wish it were better.... it's a hybrid, a touching drama with weak suspense elements." |
| 8. |
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03/29/13 |
Weak |
 "That G.I. Joe silliness the first film embraced has been steamrolled into tentpole flatness this time around. It's not stoopid anymore, but just plain stupid." |
| 9. |
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03/29/13 |
Moderate |
 "Despite its silliness, there are parts of the film that did get to me. Maybe it has to do with the yearning score by Antonio Pinto, or the film's spare, haunted look." |
| 10. |
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03/22/13 |
Moderate |
 "...feels familiar.... isn't particularly smart, but it has just enough wit to keep us engaged and just enough speed to keep us from feeling restless." |
| 11. |
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03/15/13 |
Good |
 "...provides a welcome opportunity to reacquaint ourselves with a genuinely funny Jim Carrey. I won't lie: It felt like reuniting with an old friend." |
| 12. |
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03/08/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...there's too much good stuff here to dismiss it entirely.... at times exhilarating, bold, and beautiful -- when it's not busy being ludicrous, fragmented, and just plain stupid." |
| 13. |
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03/01/13 |
Weak |
 "Ed Gass-Donnelly undercuts it all by haphazardly tossing in jump scares of the cheapest, most predictable kind... somewhere inside this film is a very good thriller..." |
| 14. |
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03/01/13 |
Fair |
 "I'd be lying if I said I didn't chuckle occasionally at the degree to which it takes the whole latent homosexuality thing to new levels.... But it's all so lifeless." |
| 15. |
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02/22/13 |
Good |
 "...a movie that lives or dies on Johnson's performance, and luckily, the actor is perfect.... He's a softy delivering tough love: an idealized Everydad for our age." |
| 16. |
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02/15/13 |
Fair |
 "...not all bad.... at least until the movie begins to drown in the telenovela-level crud that it's been building up to.... We genuinely like watching Duhamel and Hough..." |
| 17. |
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02/08/13 |
Weak |
 "...moves in fits and starts, as gorgeous as it is frustrating.... The character seems like a jerk lost inside what might have otherwise been a beautiful film." |
| 18. |
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02/08/13 |
Fair |
 "...funny enough, but it needed to be darker, raunchier, and crazier to live up to the promise.... You'll laugh, you might also cry at how much more you could have laughed." |
| 19. |
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02/01/13 |
Poor |
 "...the film avoids anything that feels like a challenge and settles for the generic... a mostly terrible film that misses the opportunity to be a merely mediocre one." |
| 20. |
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01/25/13 |
Poor |
 "...it's not too much to ask that the movie go beyond its one and only joke.... amid all the fake Sturm und Drang, all we hear is the movie giggling to itself." |
