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

[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

It's hard to not feel a slight sense of disappointment when what looks like a steaming hot slab of fresh action filmmaking hot off the grill turns out to be microwaved leftovers.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 4, 2015

This film's tagline should be "Come for the stabbing, stay for the gabbing!"

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 30, 2015

There will be abundant laying waste of unworthy opponents, and the groans you hear will not be his.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 30, 2015

Slow-motion knockouts follow, with Mr. Statham as sure-fisted as ever, but the "Expendables" director Simon West can only summon dead air in between.

| Jan 29, 2015

Sadly, "Wild Card" is no royal flush, no full house, no three of a kind. A bust is I think the term I'm searching for.

| Jan 29, 2015

No stranger to piloting action films, West allows the yarn to unwind at a perfectly measured pace.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 29, 2015

Wild Card doesn't really do [Statham] any favours, despite its rock-solid supporting cast and storied pedigree.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 29, 2015

A largely forgettable lark, notable more for its slight diversions from action-movie norms than anything else.

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 29, 2015

Las Vegas steals the show, even though it's played by New Orleans.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 28, 2015

"This is the height of my career," says Jason Statham sarcastically in his latest potboiler ...

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 28, 2015

Does the curdled thriller "Wild Card" represent a brief misstep? Or is this the moment when Jason Statham, like so many action heroes before him, settles into self-caricature?

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 28, 2015

Overstuffed and distractible, this episodic redo feels like a couple episodes of some Showtime series stitched into a feature ...

| Jan 27, 2015

The action-movie pyrotechnics succeed only at reinforcing Simon West's macho bona fides and condescendingly forcing Jason Statham back into his wheelhouse.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 25, 2015

Should cash in on Statham's loyal fan base, but will be a letdown to anyone looking for a real thrill ride.

| Jan 14, 2015

Ultimately Wild Card isn't sharp enough to execute its modest ambitions, leaving one with the impression that a lot of stylishness has been flaunted without much to show for it.

Full Review | Jan 14, 2015