The Marksman
critic Reviews
, 34% Rotten Tomatometer Score- The Marksman benefits from having Liam Neeson in the lead, but this formulaic action thriller should have aimed higher.
- , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreBilge EbiriNew York Magazine/Vulture
As a bare-minimum action flick, The Marksman is mostly serviceable.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreAmy NicholsonFilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
A Clint Eastwood reject.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreK. Austin CollinsRolling Stone
Not a great movie, but courtesy of director Robert Lorenz, a lean, plausibly entertaining one with all the fixin's and none of the extra flab of deep, incisive meaning.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreChristy LemireRogerEbert.com
There's not much to the character Neeson plays, or anyone else in the film, for that matter.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreMarc SavlovAustin Chronicle
Sometimes it's best to just keep things simple and comfortingly familiar, cliched though they may be.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreAdam GrahamDetroit News
Jim's a pretty good shot - it's right there in the movie's title - so you know there's going to be gunfire. But in this humorless, standard issue action vehicle, Neeson's aim is off.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreDan JacksonThrillist
The latest in a string of recent action movies that frame the Mexico-United States border as a fraught psychic terrain for America's aging white male warrior class.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreMatt FowlerIGN Movies
The Marksman is perfectly watchable old man reckoning cinema, held together by good performances by Liam Neeson and young Jacob Perez, but it's ultimately not much more than an assembly line of non-surprises.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScorePete HammondDeadline Hollywood Daily
Liam Neeson is reliably fine in this standard but watchable action flick.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreDennis SchwartzDennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
A routine action pic that I can take or leave.
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