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Wild Target Reviews
A few tart, amusing lines echo the fabled Kind Hearts and Coronets, yet this British movie based on a French farce falls into morbid silliness.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 14, 2016
The film has to fly by its wits -- and its witty lines -- and by the charm of its stars. This it does, just barely.
| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 18, 2010
It's never a good idea to cast Bill Nighy as a buttoned-down hit man.
| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 12, 2010
If not better than the French original, this re-make is equally good and equally funny.
Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 10, 2010
The film is directed with a surprising lack of comic spark by Jonathan Lynn.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 10, 2010
Practically a text book in how ugly things can get when you don't have the right, light touch for this sort of thing.
| Original Score: C | Nov 1, 2010
An eccentric little comic thriller filled with enough laughs that I was mostly willing to overlook the fact that it makes virtually no sense as a thriller.
| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 29, 2010
All of this busyness drains away the film's charm, turning what might have been a naughty and whimsical frolic into something glib, hectic and sour.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 29, 2010
Since irony is so often director Jonathan Lynn's weapon of choice, Wild Target should have been a good fit. It's not quite.
| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 28, 2010
Wild Target takes aim at various styles and genres and misses the mark every time.
| Oct 28, 2010
A very French 1993 farce gets a less comfortable British redo in Wild Target, a hectic, charm-challenged comedy about a fussy bachelor hitman who can't bring himself to off a winsome thief.
| Original Score: C | Oct 27, 2010
Wild Target neatly and boringly makes a surrogate family out of its ill-matched trio of caricatures, and its epilogue of domesticity is enough to make you reach for your revolver.
| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 27, 2010
It's entertainment designed to resemble a good time without aspiring to provide one.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 27, 2010
Wild Target is the kind of movie that actually uses that angry-cat-yowl sound. That is the kind of movie that Wild Target is.
| Oct 26, 2010
Its the cast of Wild Target that deserves all of the credit for they somehow managed to turn this mess not only into a watchable film, but a somewhat entertaining one, too.
Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 10, 2010
Attractive and charismatic actors can do nothing to save a movie that's charmless, pointless and witless.
Full Review | Jul 6, 2010
[An] unlovable, seldom funny Brit comedy.
Full Review | Jul 6, 2010
When Wild Target works it's a lot of fun. There's some decent comic chemistry between the three leads - and this is Grint's first film since Harry Potter 3 that didn't make me want to lob him out the window.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 24, 2010
Nothing feels like it's been properly thought through, highlighted by the fact that Nighy's 'super assassin' goes about his business by merely opening fire on a crowded market place (using a silencer, of course!).
| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 16, 2010