Killer Elite is more involving than your usual Statham drivel and certainly deserves attention outside of his usual fanbase.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 8, 2023

Successfully maintains a surprising degree of intrigue and intensity, not through an overly clever storyline, but with an air of unpredictability within its characters.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Nov 30, 2020

It's not fine cinema and it's not going to win any awards but you also won't feel like you didn't get what you came for.

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 11, 2020

Killer Elite doesn't have anything on its mind in particular; it's just fulfilling its function.

| Sep 16, 2019

While Killer Elite does sport some decent chase scenes and meticulous action sequences, it's resoundingly poorly conceived in every other aspect, most notably, the terrible screenplay.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jun 27, 2019

This might be a bit of a lark for Owen and De Niro, but the audience enjoys it just as much as we suspect they did.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 7, 2019

In the film's most emotionally honest moment, De Niro helps himself to a giant bag of money.

Full Review | May 3, 2015

It doesn't ask much of the audience, and nor should it: This is a series of pictures of men planning, running, punching, shooting, kicking and scowling at each other.

| Original Score: B | Jun 22, 2013

A cartoony and messy narrative that is mostly style over substance.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 2, 2012

"Killer Elite" came close to earning a recommendation, but because of the problems with the script and a bit of a drawn-out storyline, it didn't quite get there.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 19, 2012

The Killer Elite is a flabby, cheap looking, mess that has a saving grace in the performance of Deniro.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 27, 2012

McKendry doesn't pull off either the action nor the drama to any satisfaction.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 6, 2012

It's an extraordinary (and almost plausible) story, and we can only wish that the filmmakers had told it better ... a great cast and plenty of tension, action and gunfire, but unless you know the basic story it is rather confusing, jumpy and jumbled

| Feb 21, 2012

Fascinating but often frustrating, this Australian co-production rips along at a frenetic pace with edge-of-seat thrills as the action hots up, but loses its sizzle by a jumpy, clumsy screenplay and direction

| Feb 21, 2012

Far more than just another Transporter clone, and far less than the sum of its parts, the result is an oddity you couldn't make up.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 16, 2012

Stale and bland, Killer Elite is an emotionless, assembly-line actioner with little to keep even the hardest of hardcore fans interested.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Jan 29, 2012

The movie just sort of sits there, going through the motions, reveling in clich, building to a strangely inert climax that is forgone as it is underwhelming.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 27, 2012

...an uncompromising, better-than-average actioner that gets the job done on an impressively consistent basis.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 13, 2012

a theatrical release with the star power behind this movie should have delivered something much better

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jan 11, 2012

Even die-hard De Niro fans may be disappointed in his choice this time around. 'Killer Elite' does indeed present an ensemble of terrific actors trying to kill each other. Problem is, this adds up to a serviceable actioner but nothing more.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 22, 2011