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63Wild Target is the sort of farce where nothing, essentially, is at stake, even as cars crash (including an original Mini Cooper), bullets rip, and knives get hurled with deadly velocity.
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63An 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.
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60The script does boast a fair share of zingers, delivered with arch wit by a crack team of professionals.
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60It's hard to tell what Wild Target is offering, besides the pleasure of its company.
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50Described in the film's production notes as a "classic French comedy" – although I've never heard of it – and perhaps this is the core problem. French farce doesn't mix well with English gooniness.
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50The considerable wit, style, and skill that Mr. Nighy and Ms. Blunt bring to the project are squandered.
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50Nighy is usually a treat to watch navigating life's bad turns, so it's especially frustrating that the filmmaker so often leaves him at loose ends.
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50The cast, though, includes a great bunch of Brit faves who have all done better work elsewhere.
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40It's entertainment designed to resemble a good time without aspiring to provide one.
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Oct 24, 201040A talented cast keep some low-key action and tired gags from derailing this disappointing farce.
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30Jonathan Lynn's lamentable black comedy Wild Target again shows that attractive and charismatic actors can do nothing to save a movie that's charmless, pointless and witless.
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Oct 26, 201020The whole time I was watching Wild Target, I was trying to figure out just how to explain its weirdly old-fashioned comedic tone. I could talk about its absurd plot...
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20Nearly every element here is wildly off-target, from Jonathan Lynn's ("The Whole Nine Yards") lazy helming and Lucinda Coxon's shambolic script to the embarrassed-looking perfs from usually excellent lead thesps Bill Nighy and Emily Blunt.