Wild Card

Name: Wild Card
Director: Simon West
Released: 2015

Synopsis

When a Las Vegas bodyguard with lethal skills and a gambling problem gets in trouble with the mob, he has one last play… and it's all or nothing.

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The A.V. Club
A largely forgettable lark, notable more for its slight diversions from action-movie norms than anything else.
50
The Hollywood Reporter
By doubling down on a movie that yearns to be both introspective and bone-crunchingly cool, Wild Card overplays its hand.
50
Variety
As usual, Statham gets a lot of mileage out of his droll, ever-present scowl, but as in “Heat,” the movie’s disparate narrative strands never really come together, and the climactic showdown feels pretty anticlimactic.
50
Movie Nation
Somewhat less than the sum of its many amusing or at least unusual parts. But with Goldman, West and all these classy co-stars, he’s at least kicking butt in better company these days.
42
The Playlist
Trying to find a middle ground between an action packed Statham vehicle, a '70s style mood piece, and a '90s era, character-actor packed crime tale, Wild Card is not surprisingly an unsuccessful marriage of those ill-fitting genres.
40
Village Voice
Overstuffed and distractible, this episodic redo feels like a couple episodes of some Showtime series stitched into a feature.
40
The Dissolve
The film doesn’t ask its stars for much, and they deliver.
38
Slant Magazine
The action-movie pyrotechnics succeed only at reinforcing Simon West's macho bona fides and condescendingly forcing Jason Statham back into his wheelhouse.