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Painkiller Jane
(Movie)

MOVIE: Sci-Fi, Saturday 12/10 at 9:00p (120 minutes)

Starring Emmanuelle Vaugier, Richard Roundtree, Tate Donovan, Eric Dane, Venus Terzo, Zoran Vukelic, and Walker Howard

Genre(s): Action / Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

FIRST AIR DATE: December 10, 2005

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

59 / 100

Critic Reviews

70 Chicago Tribune 
On a night when original TV fare is hard to come by, this well-made movie is a pleasing option.
70 Hollywood Reporter Ray Richmond
Proves to be slick, intelligent, reasonably entertaining -- and blessed with an alluring lead.
58 Entertainment Weekly Mandi Bierly
If this becomes a series, they'll need to up both the dialogue and Eric Dane's screen time. [9 Dec 2005, p.83]
50 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen
"Painkiller Jane" is an odd duck. It begins promisingly enough, then gets bogged down in setting up Jane chaffing at her military keepers before becoming more action-packed once she escapes.
40 Variety Brian Lowry
There's too much musicvideo-style editing and too little action.

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