50
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21 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80EmpireNick de SemlyenEmpireNick de SemlyenA thinking person’s Bad Boys, this off-kilter indie crime comedy introduces two deliriously warped lawmen to the screen. Here’s to a Cuba-invading sequel.
- 67The PlaylistJessica KiangThe PlaylistJessica KiangEntertaining though it is in parts, it can’t really be said to mark any particular growth for McDonagh as a filmmaker, being both less angry and more cynical that the brooding "Calvary" and consequently less memorable and relevant too.
- 60Screen DailyLee MarshallScreen DailyLee MarshallWar On Everyone is essentially a clothes hanger for smart one-liners, verbal and visual, and its success will depend partly on how folks like the look of the clothes hanger.
- 58ConsequenceMarten CarlsonConsequenceMarten CarlsonMcDonagh seems to have more to say in this film, but it’s lost among the narrative and stylistic inconsistencies.
- 58The Film StageThe Film StageA noticeable step down from the highs of The Guard and Calvary, War on Everyone is still only McDonagh’s third effort and nonetheless a bold, lively endeavour.
- 50Slant MagazineChuck BowenSlant MagazineChuck BowenThe film is in love with the tropes it ridicules, and it doesn't take long for that love to dwarf any possibility of critique.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterStephen DaltonThe Hollywood ReporterStephen DaltonWar on Everyone is a little too keen to advertise its own cleverness. The characters feel more like random collections of quirky tics than real people.
- 40The GuardianHenry BarnesThe GuardianHenry BarnesYou can’t let your heroes be truly, purely horrible. But McDonagh’s moral twist comes in way too late and much too hard. It leaves you dizzy.
- 38Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreMcDonagh’s script is so ad hoc, so clumsily random, that nothing adds up to anything.