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  • 2023
  • 18+
  • Wayward Entertainment
  • 2 h 36 m
  • 2023
  • 18+
  • Wayward Entertainment
  • 2 h 36 m

Summary When vice detective Bob Hightower (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) finds his ex-wife murdered and daughter kidnapped by a satanic cult - Bob is frustrated by bumbling botched official investigations. Bob quits the police force, gets tattoos, and infiltrates the cult to hunt down the charismatic cult leader, Cyrus (Karl Glusman), with the help of ...

Directed By: Nick Cassavetes

Written By: Boston Teran

  • 2023
  • 18+
  • Wayward Entertainment
  • 2 h 36 m
  • 2023
  • 18+
  • Wayward Entertainment
  • 2 h 36 m

God Is a Bullet

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
31
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 12 User Ratings
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Summary When vice detective Bob Hightower (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) finds his ex-wife murdered and daughter kidnapped by a satanic cult - Bob is frustrated by bumbling botched official investigations. Bob quits the police force, gets tattoos, and infiltrates the cult to hunt down the charismatic cult leader, Cyrus (Karl Glusman), with the help of ...

Directed By: Nick Cassavetes

Written By: Boston Teran

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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
31
11% Positive
1 Review
22% Mixed
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67% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
31
11% Positive
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22% Mixed
2 Reviews
67% Negative
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67
Jun 22, 2023
The resolute commitment to finding tiny sparks of hope in a pitch-black cosmos yields its own bitter and oddly warming reward.
By Richard Whittaker FULL REVIEW
40
Jun 22, 2023
This exercise in brutal nihilism ultimately proves as empty as the inane philosophy that provides the film its title.
By Frank Scheck FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 12 User Ratings
6.1
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Generally Favorable Based on 12 User Ratings
6.1
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42% Mixed
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8% Negative
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38
Jun 23, 2023
There are, to be sure, moments of shock. But they offer very little awe.
By Robert Daniels FULL REVIEW
38
Jun 22, 2023
Aside from the red stuff, the film is scarcely interested in what’s inside its characters.
By Ross McIndoe FULL REVIEW
33
Jun 22, 2023
Cut God Is A Bullet down to a tight 90 minutes, and it might at least consistently deliver the cheap thrills and nihilistic kick it only occasionally achieves.
By Luke Y. Thompson FULL REVIEW
30
Jun 22, 2023
The misogyny of the movie’s risibly sadistic villains is only one distasteful thread in this sleazy saga of rescue and revenge.
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW
25
Jun 26, 2023
A distasteful, overlong slog, but at least the filmmaker appears to have put everything he wanted to up on the screen.
By Bob Strauss FULL REVIEW
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Production Company Patriot Pictures, Itaca Films
Release Date Jun 23, 2023
Duration 2 h 36 m
Rating 18+
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Tagline Say your prayers.
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