Synopsis
After watching their respective partners die, a cop and a hitman form an alliance in order to bring down their common enemy.
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Cast
- Sylvester StalloneJames Bonomo
- Sung KangTaylor Kwon
- Sarah ShahiLisa Bonomo
- Adewale Akinnuoye-AgbajeRobert Nkomo Morel
- Jason MomoaKeegan
- Christian SlaterMarcus Baptiste
- Jon SedaLouis Blanchard
- Weronika RosatiLola
- Holt McCallanyHank Greely
- Brian Van HoltRonnie Earl
Recommendations
- 75
Slant Magazine
Walter Hill thoughtfully regards the pummeling power of weaponry at work. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
Like the amped up comeback tour of two rockers who had their heyday sometime in the mid-'80s, Sylvester Stallone and director Walter Hill (48 HRS., The Warriors) join forces for a hard-hitting exercise in beefy, brainless fun with the New Orleans-set actioner Bullet to the Head. - 70
Variety
To claim the dialogue is written to comfort the narratively challenged would be mere quibbling, as the picture's chief pleasure lies in its store of funny lines, which Stallone tosses off with genuine brio. - 67
The A.V. Club
The X-factors tend to be the script and the performances, and those elements largely betray him in Bullet To The Head, which is a perfunctory exercise whenever Hill isn't busying himself with gun battles, ax fights, and other mano-a-mano confrontations. He can only do so much. - 63
Chicago Tribune
It's junk, and it's excessively violent, which is a given. Approach it as a Stallone movie (which it is) or as a Hill movie (which it is), but it's more interesting as a Hill movie. If it gets this director back into the hard-driving action game, then it will have done its duty. - 50
Chicago Sun-Times
An occasionally entertaining, often incomprehensible and ultimately quite average 1980s-homage mismatched buddy action picture. - 40
Total Film
Stallone's shtick keeps it from collapsing into farce but, overall, Bullet To The Head is too derivative and disposable to warrant serious attention. - 40
Empire
Fun in parts, and Stallone's always watchable, but it's an '80s tribute movie that coasts along on rapidly diminishing goodwill. Beige Heat, if you will.
