The Contractor is one more generic action flick with a story borrowed directly from the formulaic Hollywood closet, without any surprises or even high entertainment levels.

| Original Score: C- | Jul 25, 2023

...the picture’s slow-but-steady descent into irrelevance is triggered by a generic and rather bland midsection...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 24, 2022

The further it goes down the genre route the more it loses its relevance. And as an action movie, Saleh never fully gets the film off the ground. So it isn’t as pertinent as it tries to be or as kinetic as it wants to be.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 16, 2022

With mostly stale action and a bungled third act missing usual political intrigue, The Contractor feels like a knockoff of better, mid-2000s fare.

| Aug 16, 2022

Good cast in this thrilling and well-made shoot-em-up action drama starring Chris Pine where dialogue reveals the characters reservoirs of pain and existential fears.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 28, 2022

A standard operating procedure is employed by The Contractor.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 18, 2022

The easy mesh of the actors sells us the relationship: Foster the tinder-dry joker to Pine’s quiet man.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 10, 2022

The Contractor posits that our capitalistic system absolutely prioritizes the almighty dollar above our humanity, and keeps us rooting for our hero to prove his innate value against a stacked deck.

| Jun 5, 2022

Solid espionage thriller, which moves confidently and convincingly through the same shadowy recesses of covert spy-guy activity.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 2, 2022

What would have been a direct to DVD, is more so made direct to stream. [Full review in Spanish]

| May 16, 2022

All the work the actors put into elevating the script, though, ends up doing nothing. "The Contractor" is as bland as its title, with not even one exciting action sequence to its credit.

| Original Score: 3/10 | May 9, 2022

There’s a tense, tightly constructed thriller here — and Chris Pine makes a decent play as a neo-Bourne.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 9, 2022

[A] diverting if predictable espionage flick...

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 9, 2022

Pine is good at humanising this trope. Guilt and regret course through his character and he never just shakes off his physical ailments, which helps give the action sequences a frisson of danger.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 4, 2022

The Contractor is as generic and dull as its title, with an over-used action-movie plot of a bitter military veteran who goes rogue. Throw in some 'daddy issues,' sloppy editing, and a drab Chris Pine -- and that sums up this soulless film.

| Apr 27, 2022

By following predictable patterns, The Contractor does its job acceptably by providing brief but forgettable distraction.

| Apr 22, 2022

While the plot doesn't stand up to scrutiny, some decent action sequences at least keep things interesting.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 21, 2022

Once the story begins to come together, it doesn't really hold together... But you forgive it just because Chris Pine is just so friendly to spend time with.

| Apr 19, 2022

This movie doesn't know if it's trying to be that direct action movie or if it's trying to deconstruct the plight of the American soldier.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 15, 2022

Chris Pine, Ben Foster and Kiefer Sutherland - great star power for what is only an average film.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Apr 15, 2022