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15 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 63TV Guide MagazineKen FoxTV Guide MagazineKen FoxIt's a complicated plot, but one that leaves plenty of room for everything a fan could want: gunplay, swordfights, brutal mano a mano fisticuffs, motorcycle races, car chases, Japanese gangsters eating sushi off of topless women, and that old standby, a decapitated head in a box.
- 50VarietyJoe LeydonVarietyJoe LeydonQuickly devolves into a standard-issue crime drama laced with routine martial artistry.
- 40The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckLacking even the galvanizing action sequences that would have compensated for suffering through its formulaic plot, this is a thoroughly forgettable exploitationer that will not enhance its stars' resumes.
- Most regrettably, War squanders the considerable merits of its leads.
- 40Film ThreatFilm ThreatPerhaps this movie would have been better off if it starred Steven Seagal and Tom Arnold.
- War ties itself in knots trying to bring something new to a stale formula. It's never painful to watch, but that's only because it provokes no feeling at all.
- 25The Globe and Mail (Toronto)The Globe and Mail (Toronto)A kind of dumbed-down, souped-up action thriller in a quasi-"Lethal Weapon" mode.
- 25San Francisco ChroniclePeter HartlaubSan Francisco ChroniclePeter HartlaubIf you want to see Li and Statham in an underwhelming martial arts film, rent "The One" instead. Li talks considerably more in that movie, but at least he punches a lot of people out.
- 25Boston GlobeWesley MorrisBoston GlobeWesley MorrisFun here is fleeting.
- 20L.A. WeeklyL.A. WeeklyWhat is it good for? Absolutely nothing. Offering neither the enjoyably preposterous auto-heroics of the Transporter movies nor the lithe, legible athleticism of even second-tier Hong Kong thrillers.