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9 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- Crashing through are several raffish characters whose acting doesn't get in the way of the stunts.
- 50Washington PostRita KempleyWashington PostRita KempleyFlexploitation pure and simple -- nothing but savagery, sex and sinew.
- 50TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineFirst-class stunts, fine photography, and solid acting by Weathers and Vanity combine to lift this action film above its ludicrous story. Had the filmmakers not undermined the project with inane plot twists, unexplained motives, and absurd coincidences, this could have been a real winner.
- 50The Globe and Mail (Toronto)The Globe and Mail (Toronto)The script (by Robert Reneau) is snappier than the movie deserves, and supplies a dose of wise-guy humor to director Craig R. Baxley's idiot version of James Bond Gets Down in Motown. [15 Feb 1988]
- 40Time OutTime OutSometime stunt co-ordinator Baxley directs this feebly-scripted, sporadically exciting crime pic like a showpiece for his former speciality.
- 40Los Angeles TimesMichael WilmingtonLos Angeles TimesMichael WilmingtonIt's a generic action movie with more guns than brains, more car crashes than coherence and more opportunism than originality. [12 Feb 1988, p.21]
- 25Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertAction Jackson is a movie where some of the parts are good, but none of them fit and a lot of them stink. The movie tries for so many different effects in the course of its endless 94 minutes that I walked out feeling dizzy.
- 25Miami HeraldHal BoedekerMiami HeraldHal BoedekerSitting through Action Jackson was like being dragged through a swamp of sick humor and nauseating violence. I needed a shower afterward. [18 Feb 1988, p.C4]