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  • 2022
  • PG-13
  • Amazon Prime Video
  • 1 h 42 m
  • 2022
  • PG-13
  • Amazon Prime Video
  • 1 h 42 m

Summary Thirteen-year-old Sam Cleary (Javon “Wanna” Walton) suspects that his mysterious and reclusive neighbor Mr. Smith (Sylvester Stallone) is actually a legend hiding in plain sight. Twenty years ago, Granite City’s super-powered vigilante, Samaritan, was reported dead after a fiery warehouse battle with his rival, Nemesis. Most believe Sama...

Directed By: Julius Avery

Written By: Bragi F. Schut

  • 2022
  • PG-13
  • Amazon Prime Video
  • 1 h 42 m
  • 2022
  • PG-13
  • Amazon Prime Video
  • 1 h 42 m

Samaritan

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 28 Critic Reviews
45
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 96 User Ratings
5.7
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Summary Thirteen-year-old Sam Cleary (Javon “Wanna” Walton) suspects that his mysterious and reclusive neighbor Mr. Smith (Sylvester Stallone) is actually a legend hiding in plain sight. Twenty years ago, Granite City’s super-powered vigilante, Samaritan, was reported dead after a fiery warehouse battle with his rival, Nemesis. Most believe Sama...

Directed By: Julius Avery

Written By: Bragi F. Schut

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 28 Critic Reviews
45
21% Positive
6 Reviews
54% Mixed
15 Reviews
25% Negative
7 Reviews

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 28 Critic Reviews
45
21% Positive
6 Reviews
54% Mixed
15 Reviews
25% Negative
7 Reviews

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80
Aug 25, 2022
Avery’s film is a solid piece of genre entertainment, grounded by excellent performances, and clever enough to find a new way to present the same old tropes. Like an old hunk of junk fixed and cleaned up, and made into something new again, and worth paying full price for.
By William Bibbiani FULL REVIEW
61
Aug 26, 2022
The Boys, Samaritan is not. But even a failed attempt at making a superhero movie out of whole cloth rather than pre-existing IP is welcome, particularly one that challenges the genre’s mores.
By Andrew Crump FULL REVIEW

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Mixed or Average Based on 96 User Ratings
5.7
39% Positive
37 Ratings
46% Mixed
44 Ratings
16% Negative
15 Ratings

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User Reviews

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User Score
Mixed or Average Based on 96 User Ratings
5.7
39% Positive
37 Ratings
46% Mixed
44 Ratings
16% Negative
15 Ratings

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10
Bobzilla62
Sep 7, 2022
This movie is awesome. Today’s critics are too out of touch with today’s audience.
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10
italoipo
Aug 28, 2022
loved it. sure has it flaws ( annoying kid) but it's refreshing to see a movie with a simple message and NO woke in your face garabge. gave me back a bit of hope for Movies.
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50
Aug 26, 2022
The movie doesn’t stand out for its action scenes, has nothing new to say about the old good-versus-evil conflict at the center of any superhero story, and is incapable of giving its villains real purpose. Stallone is a strong man, but even he cannot carry the weight of an entire movie alone.
By Marco Vito Oddo FULL REVIEW
40
Aug 26, 2022
In the end, Samaritan commits a cardinal sin of the superhero genre: It thinks a high-profile actor with vaguely defined superpowers is enough to make the film interesting when it clearly needs something more.
By Graeme Guttmann FULL REVIEW
40
Aug 25, 2022
It’s a fresh spin that feels awfully stale, a Samaritan less good and more mediocre.
By Benjamin Lee FULL REVIEW
38
Aug 26, 2022
Samaritan proves, to paraphrase Tina Turner, that we don’t need another superhero.
By Odie Henderson FULL REVIEW
25
Aug 25, 2022
It’s a pastiche of a pastiche, cycling through familiar tropes without adding anything to them; turning what could have been a fascinating critique of society’s superhero obsession into just another way of indulging it.
By Zaki Hasan FULL REVIEW
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10
Vitor2333
Aug 26, 2022
E um otimo filme para ver com a familia nos ensina valores e faz uma critica a sociedade america de agora
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6
Ralfbergs
Dec 11, 2022
Stallone still does it well as an action "hero"(?) even this late in his age, the movie was ok, but not very memorable or too entertaining. Not a bad movie, but not a masterpiece either.
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liamexe
Nov 5, 2022
If a more comic approach had been taken, this movie may have been much better. The jokes created for them typically fall flat since there are so many stand-up comedians trying to include comedy and action in movies. Poor jokes end up sounding trite because people expect them to be funny. However, the unexpected delivery actually starts to be amusing when a serious character—such as a classic action hero—turns comedic. In an unconventional comedy/action movie character, Sly might excel. Although I could be mistaken, I don't remember him ever trying this in his professional life.
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Luke08
Oct 29, 2022
Classic simplistic Stallone with plenty of woke. All predictable, cheap unrealistic fighting scenes defying first-graders intelligence, silly story. All with the evil white man and color heroic mother that are being shoved down your throat nowadays.
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bertobellamy
Sep 8, 2022
Sylvester Stallone better go back to the 'Creed' universe, because his try at being a superhero couldn't have been more generic and subpar, even more than most recent Marvel films.
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Production Company Balboa Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
Release Date Aug 26, 2022
Duration 1 h 42 m
Rating PG-13
Genres
Tagline 25 years ago, the world's greatest hero vanished.
Website https://www.instagram.com/balboa_productions/
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Awards

Razzie Awards
• 1 Nomination
Young Artist Awards
• 1 Nomination

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