metacritic.com: Buddha Heads

Overall Metascore

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

22 / 100

50	Los Angeles Times At once a powerful family saga, and a gangster movie that is way too talky but balanced by its unusual background. A tale about two generations of gangbangers in the Japanese American community is certainly not your typical fare.
30	LA Weekly It's an idea worth exploring, but Maeda has elected to set his debut feature in a thug-life realm for which he has no apparent feeling or instinct, resulting in heavy-handed, wince-inducing tough-guy dialogue.
20	New Times (L.A.) In large part because of the low budget, both the performances and the technical chops are wildly uneven; and the script finally sinks in to broad melodrama.
20	Variety B-pic material through and through, carting out every possible cliche about family honor, debts and sacrifice, to name a few.