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

The overlong, perfunctory Killer Elite is simply a series of (reasonably well-choreographed) assassination sequences.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 30, 2011

Long, muddled, misguided.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 28, 2011

A few good stunts, some tolerable brooding and one nice, if silly desert chase. But not essential.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 26, 2011

I had a reasonably good time, on the whole...

| Sep 25, 2011

De Niro, in what amounts to an extended cameo, is radically miscast. That's still no excuse for his nonperformance, which is beyond lackluster.

| Original Score: C+ | Sep 23, 2011

Statham is just good enough to make one wish he'd challenge himself.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 23, 2011

Killer Elite is a throwback to an era when action movies still had balls, when muscular bravado easily overcame banal screenwriting and corny narrative earnestness.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 23, 2011

Jason Statham is enjoyable enough to watch that he can occasionally make one forget just how silly and dull a movie like Killer Elite really is.

| Original Score: 3.5/10 | Sep 23, 2011

Features characters less three-dimensional than most cartoons doing and saying things that are only done and said in movies. Bad movies. Really bad movies.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 23, 2011

Though the film tries to achieve Bourne-style grit and depth, it lacks the intelligence and flair that made the Matt Damon franchise so compelling.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 23, 2011

To be sure, first-time director Gary McKendry keeps things moving at an adrenalized pace, even through thickets of flashbacks. But this is precisely Killer Elite's major problem: motion at the expense of emotion.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 23, 2011

The plot is over-complicated, the screenplay limp and some of the subsidiary acting is hardly up to the mark.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 23, 2011

When Robert De Niro, Clive Owen and Jason Statham unite for an action thriller, we should be able to expect something special. Or at least memorable. Instead, "Killer Elite" gives us ordinary.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 23, 2011

It doesn't care if you like it, which is why I kind of do.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 23, 2011

Simultaneously silly and overwrought...

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 23, 2011

Clumsily directed by Gary McKendry and poorly written by Matt Sherring, rookies both, the convoluted movie collapses under the weight of its own clichs.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 23, 2011

The fight scenes are brutally authentic while the non-fight scenes are laughably ridiculous.

| Original Score: C | Sep 22, 2011

Pure punishment.

| Sep 22, 2011

[A] pileup of sub-Bourne action set pieces, sad laughs and clichs.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 22, 2011