The story is woefully too conventional and predictable.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 24, 2022

It seemed like it would be an exciting John Wick-style vehicle for Taraji P. Henson but it ended up being a complete misfire that does a disservice to her talents.

| Oct 9, 2020

Corny bonding, insincere dramatic twists, and a legion of confounding stylistic and narrative choices makes Proud Mary a minor camp misfire.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 25, 2020

We need more movies with woman leads; we need more movies with leads of color. But we also need to -- and can do -- better than this.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jul 23, 2020

Despite its perceived best efforts, Proud Mary is a film that is unsure of its own identity.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 14, 2020

What was cool was to see the 70s blaxploitation genre reimagined in a modern film, but unfortunately director Babak Najafi fails to connect the dots with the script and the emotions of the characters.

| Apr 14, 2020

Taraji P. Henson does her best to breathe life into this generic actioner.

| Mar 10, 2020

Often gets bogged down in cliches, but Henson is just so good, and Najafi's direction so solid, that the film resonates in spite of its occasionally wooden dialogue.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 3, 2019

A striking ineptitude of pacing and motivation.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 21, 2019

That's the biggest problem with Proud Mary: The film is boring. The characters are boring. The dialogue. The settings.

| Jan 30, 2019

The idea of Henson as a cool action hero is something most movie fans can get excited for, but she needed a much better film than this.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 8, 2019

Proud Mary is shamelessly gimmicky in execution as it halfheartedly attempts to ape an iron woman's anti-hero empowerment. Ultimately, it's banal, drearily conceived and plodding, delivering very little for this Mary to be proud of.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 21, 2018

Proud Mary is disappointing in every way imaginable.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Dec 21, 2018

This movie and this studio does not deserve Taraji P. Henson.

| Nov 6, 2018

Even while the rest of the film collapses around Taraji P. Henson like a poorly made soufflé, she gamely holds up her end of the bargain.

| Original Score: B- | Oct 31, 2018

Solid, if unremarkable.

| Original Score: 3 | Oct 31, 2018

It's just an action flick that underwhelms on the action front despite a thoroughly committed performance by its star.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 30, 2018

Perhaps the biggest slight against "Proud Mary" is that nothing happens. It's an action movie without action. It's a drama without real drama. In short, it's a complete bore.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 30, 2018

Perhaps most egregious of all, the film cannot seem to nail down Mary as a character.

| Aug 26, 2018

Well...this could've went to television.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 25, 2018