Sabotage (2014)
Critic Reviews
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Chicago Sun-Times Richard Roeper
This brutal, bloody, dark and at times gruesomely funny thriller isn't some David Fincher-esque mood piece where all the clues come together at the end. It's more like a modern-day, Georgia version of a spaghetti Western.
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63
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ReelViews James Berardinelli
For most of its running length, Sabotage is a gritty, compelling motion picture with twists to make a pretzel envious.
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50
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch Joe Williams
This is an extremely gory flick, with autopsy scenes to complement Schwarzenegger's usual shoot-first sensibilities. After 30 years, it's pointless to complain about the collateral damage in his movies, but here Schwarzenegger is taking vigilante justice to dark new levels that can only be reached via plot holes big enough for a Hummer.
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50
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San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
Sabotage cannot be called a good movie, not with a straight face. But as an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie, it has something.
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50
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Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips
The movie wants it both ways: bloodthirsty revenge and some finger-wagging about the tactics.
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50
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Philadelphia Inquirer David Hiltbrand
This is the type of movie best enjoyed as a late-night indulgence on cable. Really late at night, when your eyes are still partially open, but your brain has called it quits.
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38
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Boston Globe Ty Burr
Stupid, sadistic, misogynistic, confusing, and more than a little ridiculous. Here's the thing, though: It keeps you watching, if only to see how tortured the plot or characters are going to get. I'm not sure that “entertainingly awful” is a recommendation, but the shoe fits.
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38
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Slant Magazine Chris Cabin
There's no sense of visual artifice to match the ludicrous pitch of the script, and subsequently, the film comes off as awkward and uncertain.
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38
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New York Post Kyle Smith
So Arnold Schwarzenegger has reached the shaky-cam-and-hoodies stage of his career. But it's a bit late in the day for Arnold to try to get all indie and complicated.
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30
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The Hollywood Reporter David Rooney
What's most remarkable about this big, dumb exploitation movie is how carefully anything approaching psychological texture appears to have been peeled away.
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25
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USA Today Scott Bowles
Indisputably the most violent film of the year and disputably the worst.
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10
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Film.com Jordan Hoffman
Does this mean that Sabotage is a rich, morally complex story about the gray zone between good and evil? Hell, no. It just means it is a bungle.
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