Superbly acted and heavy on atmosphere, Mob Land is a revenge thriller posing as something more cerebral.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 11, 2024

Less yappin’ would have whittled Mob Land down from a bloated 111 minutes, to its benefit. It’s a violent melodrama with a high body count that aspires to backroads Greek tragedy, but instead feels increasingly ersatz.

| Sep 20, 2023

It is fitting to say that Mob Land is a crime movie with blood, yes, but also the hearts that pump it.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 20, 2023

An intriguingly dark small-town thriller with a compellingly downbeat, nasty edge. It also marks out writer-director Nicholas Maggio as a talent to watch.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 18, 2023

...it falls short of fulfilling its potential as an electrifying crime thriller that could have truly elevated the narrative and complemented the film’s exceptional cast.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Sep 10, 2023

Travolta brings little in the way of gravitas to the supposedly sage lawman nearing retirement and facing health issues, but he's marginally less clichéd or cartoon-like than the paint-by-numbers bad guys.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 31, 2023

In the world of Mob Land, nothing good lasts. Disappointingly, despite the cast’s best efforts and a few striking visual flourishes, nothing good lasts in the film itself either.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 31, 2023

Dorff is riveting as the provocative hit man.

| Original Score: B | Aug 30, 2023

Optimistically billed as John Travolta’s comeback, writer-director Nicholas Maggio’s debut is an effective Southern noir, with Travolta an authoritative but peripheral presence.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 29, 2023

Travolta, Dorff, Dillon, and Fernandez. These actors keep the story grounded as each person is tested.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Aug 29, 2023

Mob Land is going all in on the deep southern gothic atmosphere. It’s just a pity that the acting is so conspicuously effortful, the plot is formulaic and the pacing drags like a wounded pig at a hog shoot.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 27, 2023

Tired, perhaps, but still brutally effective at times.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 25, 2023

... Some crunchy dialogue and very dark twists add surprises to a familiar set-up.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 25, 2023

For lovers of crime movies, an average example can be good enough. Still, Nicholas Maggio’s tale of blue-collar crooks in the American South is just a touch too thin and phoney to make the grade.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 24, 2023

Mob Land has sincerity, but it can’t beat a bad case of genre fatigue.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 24, 2023

A facsimile of much better movies, Mob Land has an idea of the type of story it wants to tell but not the tools to execute it.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 24, 2023

For a film whose premise offers so much, Mob Land is pretty disappointing. Its aim is seemingly to give audiences a Deep Southern neo-noir heist thriller, and it just about does so, but without any distinction.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Aug 23, 2023

Paying homage to the independent crime films of the past, Mob Land is a gritty and thrilling joyride worth taking.

| Aug 22, 2023

Well, it all hangs together and the final shot rounds it off nicely enough.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 22, 2023

I'm watched this movie waiting for it to get bad, but it never does.

| Aug 17, 2023