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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Cast
- Jason StathamNick Wild
- Michael AngaranoCyrus Kinnick
- Dominik GarciaHolly
- Milo VentimigliaDanny DeMarco
- Hope DavisCassandra
- Max CasellaOsgood
- Stanley TucciBaby
- Sofía VergaraD.D.
- Jason AlexanderPinky
- Anne HecheRoxy
- 58
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.