Target might be a lightweight assignment, but Penn works through its dramatic dilemmas with a proper moral seriousness.

| Jul 25, 2024

Gene Hackman’s first two collaborations with director Arthur Penn were 1967’s Bonnie and Clyde and 1975’s Night Moves -- it goes without saying that Target, their third and final teaming, proves to easily be the least of three.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 10, 2024

Surprisingly misses the target.

| Original Score: C+ | May 1, 2023

The basic concept is excellent and could have resulted in a nice, attractive movie with considerable style. But I'm afraid "Hollywood" got to it and as action came in the door, credibility leaped out a rear window.

| May 26, 2021

Mr. Hackman seems to have been born for this role... Mr. Dillon seems to be putting the obnoxious punks of his early roles behind him for a somewhat more complex and satisfying characterization.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 26, 2021

Standard as it is, Target still manages to be entertaining and fun, and it contains a fine performance by Gene Hackman, a guy who always manages to keep his cool no matter what he's cast in or as.

| May 26, 2021

Where oh where was the script doctor? It's basically a straight-line thriller with a few quasi-artistic curlicues.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 26, 2021

On one level, it's a well-told spy thriller. On another, it's an affecting, often humorous look at a father-son relationship. On any level, it's a sturdy vehicle for the talents of Gene Hackman and Matt Dillon...

| May 26, 2021

An engrossing new thriller starring Gene Hackman and Matt Dillon.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 26, 2021

Target is definitely an action picture, but if s not one of those noisy thrillers that sets a quick pace and harsh tone and never lets up.

| May 26, 2021

The action sequences of Target, which make up most of the picture, are certainly adequate. But they are just as certainly overblown, verging on the Bond-ian when the tone of the film wants something closer to Le Carre.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 26, 2021

Despite a terribly stagy finale, "Target" is exciting, intelligent and entertaining enough to keep audiences on edge, and, violence or no, its messages are good ones.

| Original Score: 7/10 | May 26, 2021

Save the movie - that's what Hackman and Dillon do best Their confident team-acting as an estranged father and son forced into a collaborative heroic effort overcomes one hackneyed script element after another.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 26, 2021

It's astounding to see Arthur Penn's name attached to this piece of cheese.

| May 26, 2021

There is painfully little to mark this as a Penn film.

| May 26, 2021

Hackman and Dillon convey the growing mutual admiration of this extremely likable father-and-son duo but they're up against an increasingly silly script.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 26, 2021

"Target" isn't a suspenseful spy movie, but it makes up for its shortcomings with its genuine good- heartedness.

| May 26, 2021

An uneven film, to be sure, but far more ambitious and intelligent than most spy thrillers.

| May 26, 2021

The film, photographed on locations in Texas, France and Germany, looks great. It's also acted with stylish conviction by Mr. Hackman and the key supporting performers.

| May 26, 2021

The saddest element of ''Target'' is its overall tone of desperation. Penn is desperate for a hit, and so is Hackman.

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 26, 2021