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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 75
    San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalle

    It has a life and style that other buddy action movies lack Read full review

  • 70
    Variety | Robert Koehler

    Not surprisingly based on a comic book series by Brett Lewis and R.A. Jones (whom pic fails to credit), pic hurtles along at a pace designed by vet music vid and ad helmer Paul Hunter to engage short attention spans. Read full review

  • 60
    The New York Times | Dana Stevens

    Too much seriousness can be fatal to a picture like this one, since it impedes the efficient delivery of dumb laughter and easy thrills. Read full review

  • 50
    Washington Post |

    One of those motley movies that borrows from just about everywhere. Read full review

  • 50
    USA Today | Mike Clark

    Action star Chow Yun-Fat's latest is as thin as the buzz cut he sports in Bulletproof Monk. Read full review

  • 50
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    The fight scenes in Bulletproof Monk are not as inventive as some I've seen (although the opening fight on a rope bridge is so well done that it raises expectations it cannot fulfill). Read full review

  • 50
    Los Angeles Times | Kenneth Turan

    Began life as a comic book, and screenwriters Ethan Reiff and Cyrus Voris, ever respectful of that lineage, have not allowed the film's dialogue or plot points to rise above their cartoonish origins. Read full review

  • 42
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    As ungainly in its jammed-together East-meets-West-ness as Steven Seagal in a yoga pose. Read full review

  • 38
    Boston Globe | Ty Burr

    Indeed a rip-off - a rehash of Hong Kong superstar Chow's greatest celluloid moments with an overlay of Hollywood action cliches, youth-flick silliness, and ah-so stereotypes. Read full review

  • 30
    Washington Post | Stephen Hunter

    It never makes much sense. Read full review

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