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24 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 50The DissolveScott TobiasThe DissolveScott TobiasPart of what’s made this middling action movie so durable—besides its ready-made “Movies For Guys Who Like Movies” template—is how endearingly uncool Harley and Marlboro are, as a biker and a cowboy who don’t really belong to any particular time and place.
- 50Slant MagazineChuck BowenSlant MagazineChuck BowenHarley Davidson and the Marlboro Man is one passable joke stretched out over 98 minutes with nothing in the way of a real movie to support it.
- 50The New York TimesVincent CanbyThe New York TimesVincent CanbyMr. Rourke and Mr. Johnson handle their roles with more ease and humor than can be accommodated by a movie so stuffed with mindless fistfights, gunfights, helicopter chases, explosions and leaps from tall buildings.
- 50Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasLos Angeles TimesKevin ThomasRourke and Johnson are worthy of better, as is Australian director Simon Wincer, best known for his Emmy-winning direction of the miniseries Lonesome Dove.
- 40EmpireKim NewmanEmpireKim NewmanFor a while, its crassness is amusing, but as the plot sets in, it gradually turns into a stultifying bore.
- 37Washington PostHal HinsonWashington PostHal HinsonWhen they part ways at picture's end, Marlboro's parting words are "Vaya con Dios," which translates as "Go with God." I'd put it differently. Go, the both of you. With God or without, but by all means, go.
- All the virile violence in this buddy picture is lackluster — we’ve seen these fights, chases, and shoot-outs before.
- 20Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenAustin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenThe movie's not bad in the action department, especially if you're a perennial fan of the gun shots and verbal quips combo. But it's so cynical, so brazen about its cardboard iconography, so calculatedly cool, that you just start longing for that crystal dream -- any dream but this one.
- 20Time OutTime OutUtter rubbish, and badly dressed at that.