Could have been an interesting look at the downside of Las Vegas life. Or it could have been a kick-butt action movie. As it is, it is neither.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 2, 2021

As Nick Wild, Jason Statham is perfection. Quiet, brooding, introspective but with a wild streak, no one can build tension with silence, stillness and just a stare like Statham.

| Dec 8, 2019

It all feels like a semi-engaging flashback episode of a show about a Las Vegas "bodyguard" ...

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 14, 2019

With an unsurprising climax, weak story and repetitive action, the film fails to be half as good as a regular Statham gag must mandatorily be.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 9, 2017

Wild Card has a handful of spectacular fights (choreographed by Cory Yuen), sprinkled throughout long stretches of compulsive gambling and macho brooding.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 22, 2016

As Jason Statham action flicks go, this is one of the better ones, but it is still only going to appeal to the fans.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 2, 2016

This is a snappily-edited film that finds a surprisingly solid middle-ground between fast action and gangster melodrama.

| Original Score: B- | Feb 24, 2016

It was a risk asking Statham to do more than just bash baddies... it kind of pays off.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 2, 2016

It ain't anything new, but it's entertaining.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 18, 2015

Much of the climactic energy is focused on a series of trumped-up, ultraviolent fight sequences. Most of the narrative depth gets lost in the process.

| May 1, 2015

Piles of noirish exposition get the better of Jason Statham in this unpleasantly retrograde crime drama. What happened in Vegas should have stayed there.

| Mar 23, 2015

Unjustly ignored.

| Mar 23, 2015

Heaven knows what Brian De Palma (originally slated to direct) would have made of it, but nuts-and-bolts man Simon West, with whom Statham remade The Mechanic, keeps things simple.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 22, 2015

Wild Card clearly has aspirations beyond the beat-em-up genre. But it sorely lacks any connection between the characters and the viewer, failing to establish and relatable moments to rouse our interest.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 20, 2015

The fight scenes are deadpan and electric, as they should be in a Statham film, but the attempts at comedy and pathos are sorely misjudged in a loose-knit storyline that simply ambles to an underwhelming conclusion.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 19, 2015

It might have high-rolling credentials, but Wild Card is bluffing.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 19, 2015

[It's] offbeat and entertaining enough to stand a fair chance of achieving cult status in future years.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 19, 2015

Bar. Big breasts. Bodyguard. Jason Statham! Cockney, mate. Vegas, innit?

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 19, 2015

It emerges, alas, as a compromise, hedging its bets between cheery, characterful Ocean's-ish caper and brute-force beat-'em-up; we're offered helpings of both, but not enough of either to satisfy.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 19, 2015

Ideal Statham - see 2002's The Transporter - is a gent, a man of few words who cleaves to a certain way of doing things. The hero he gives us here is just a little too close to a thug, a braggart and a loser. It won't do.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 19, 2015