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Avg. Critic Score: 76 out of 100 Generally favorable reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
15 Iffy for 15+
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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 91
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    High school reunions should only be this satisfying. Read full review

  • 90
    Washington Post | Rita Kempley

    A hilarious new addition to the wonderfully warped Generation X-Files. Read full review

  • 90
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    A bright burst of action and comedy with a cast that makes for rousing good company. Read full review

  • 90
    Los Angeles Times | Kenneth Turan

    A wild at heart, anarchic comedy that believes in living dangerously. Read full review

  • 80
    The New York Times | Elvis Mitchell

    Enough wild-card energy to keep it bright and surprising. Read full review

  • 80
    Variety |

    The zeal and good nature of the cast overcome the artificial quality of the situations. Read full review

  • 75
    USA Today | Susan Wloszczyna

    The kind of quirky, character-driven comedy they don't make much anymore. Read full review

  • 63
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    The film takes the form but not the feel of a comic thriller. It's quirkier than that. Read full review

  • 50
    New York Daily News |

    The tone remains uneasily divided between lightly realistic character comedy and the darkest, chilliest kind of farce. Read full review

  • 50
    San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalle

    The picture is a soggy, all-over-the- place mess. Read full review

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Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says Iffy for 15+ Quirky mix of laughs, extreme violence. No payoff.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that the film contains some violent and bloody scenes. The opening scene contains three men brutally shot in close range. In another scene, one character is stabbed (and killed) in the neck with a pen. The body is discarded in an incinerator. Relationships are relatively mature, and there is coarse language throughout.
  • Families can talk about how the movie gets the audience to feel empathetic for an assassin and how killing is made light of. Is violence ever funny?
The good stuff
  • message true0 Positive messages: Professional assassin feels no remorse for his murders.
What to watch for
  • violence false5 Violence: Violent shoot-outs; one character is stabbed in the neck with a pen.
  • sex false3 Sex: Relatively mild; contains one scene of a couple making out.
  • language false3 Language: Some occasional profanity.
  • consumerism false0 Consumerism: Not an issue
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false3 Drinking, drugs and smoking: Some references to cocaine.
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