Fresh
Overall, it gets by, but bets are hedged when single-minded efficiency and ice in the veins would have been enough.
Trevor Johnston, Time Out
Parker
To get away clean, you have to play dirty.
2013 · 1h 58m · R
Action, Crime
Directed by
Taylor Hackford
Overview
A thief with a unique code of professional ethics is double-crossed by his crew and left for dead. Assuming a new disguise and forming an unlikely alliance with a woman on the inside, he looks to hijack the score of the crew's latest heist.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
42%
Tomatometer
Fresh
A cool, violent, efficient adaptation of the taciturn anti-hero (the creation of Donald E. Westlake, writing as Richard Stark), who's out to restore order in a bloody world in his own bloody way.
Bruce Diones, New Yorker
Rotten
For an old-fashioned crime thriller, you need real pros. Mr. Statham is to acting what Taco Bell is to nutrition.
Rex Reed, New York Observer
Fresh
Poster quote: "Parker," a film that's a little better than you'd expect!
Laremy Legel, Film.com
Rotten
Parker's vengeance isn't thrilling, there's a pointlessly developed non-love triangle, even the glam settings look cheap, and the tough-guy exchanges are inexplicably flat.
Tom Russo, Boston Globe
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