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2015
R
Lionsgate Films
1 h 32 m

2015
R
Lionsgate Films
1 h 32 m

Summary Nick Wild (Jason Statham) is a Las Vegas bodyguard with lethal professional skills and a personal gambling problem. When a friend is beaten by a sadistic thug, Nick strikes back, only to find out the thug is the son of a powerful mob boss. Suddenly Nick is plunged into the criminal underworld, chased by enforcers and wanted by the mob. H...

Directed By: Simon West

Written By: William Goldman

2015
R
Lionsgate Films
1 h 32 m

2015
R
Lionsgate Films
1 h 32 m

Wild Card

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 19 Critic Reviews

40

User Score Mixed or Average Based on 77 User Ratings

5.3

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Summary Nick Wild (Jason Statham) is a Las Vegas bodyguard with lethal professional skills and a personal gambling problem. When a friend is beaten by a sadistic thug, Nick strikes back, only to find out the thug is the son of a powerful mob boss. Suddenly Nick is plunged into the criminal underworld, chased by enforcers and wanted by the mob. H...

Directed By: Simon West

Written By: William Goldman

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Critic Reviews

Metascore

Mixed or Average Based on 19 Critic Reviews

16% Positive
3 Reviews

58% Mixed
11 Reviews

26% Negative
5 Reviews

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Critic Reviews

Metascore

Mixed or Average Based on 19 Critic Reviews

16% Positive
3 Reviews

58% Mixed
11 Reviews

26% Negative
5 Reviews

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Positive Reviews
Mixed Reviews
Negative Reviews

Jan 30, 2015

I really enjoyed listening to Statham talk. His fight scenes have their predictable, violent payoffs, but his rambling monologues are unexpectedly, gloriously entertaining. This film’s tagline should be “Come for the stabbing, stay for the gabbing!”

By Odie Henderson FULL REVIEW

Jan 28, 2015

A largely forgettable lark, notable more for its slight diversions from action-movie norms than anything else.

By Josh Modell FULL REVIEW

User Reviews

User Score

Mixed or Average Based on 77 User Ratings

22% Positive
17 Ratings

61% Mixed
47 Ratings

17% Negative
13 Ratings

All Reviews
Positive Reviews
Mixed Reviews
Negative Reviews

User Reviews

User Score

Mixed or Average Based on 77 User Ratings

22% Positive
17 Ratings

61% Mixed
47 Ratings

17% Negative
13 Ratings

All Reviews
Positive Reviews
Mixed Reviews
Negative Reviews

Aug 14, 2015

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Oct 17, 2016

Well Acted & Great fight choreography, A little some stopped, but have a Great script......... A Good C- Movie turn in B+...........................,,,,.....

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Jan 14, 2015

As usual, Statham gets a lot of mileage out of his droll, ever-present scowl, but as in “Heat,” the movie’s disparate narrative strands never really come together, and the climactic showdown feels pretty anticlimactic.

By Scott Foundas FULL REVIEW

Mar 19, 2015

Wild Card, which keeps giving the Stath too much mannered hard-boiled dialogue for his own good, is a promising blend of components that don’t quite end up gelling.

By Tim Robey FULL REVIEW

Jan 29, 2015

The film doesn’t ask its stars for much, and they deliver.

By Andrew Lapin FULL REVIEW

Jan 25, 2015

The action-movie pyrotechnics succeed only at reinforcing Simon West's macho bona fides and condescendingly forcing Jason Statham back into his wheelhouse.

By Ed Gonzalez FULL REVIEW

New York Daily News

Jan 29, 2015

Statham brings so little energy that the fight scenes are hardly more vivid than the gambling ones. His one-liners have no heart; his cynicism is no longer sharp.

By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW

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Jan 7, 2016

This film is a bit more story-driven than your typical Statham flick, which is a roulette game of its own. Story-driven Statham films have a tendency to flop, but not this one, given that it is a nearly word-for-word remake of Heat with Burt Reynolds. You still get some great, well-choreographed fight scenes, and with a coherent storyline, I say this is a winner. Statham movies are a category of their own, a category I enjoy immensely. I would recommend this movie to any Statham fan.

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Nov 28, 2021

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

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Apr 12, 2015

Not one of the best movies I watched, but Jason Statham is a very good actor, manages to impress me all the time. And this story, is ok. .

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Nov 8, 2015

When I want to see a good action film I usually turn to a Jason Statham movie, sure beats yet another Liam Neeson film right? Wild Card is predictable, uninspired and surprisingly funny, with way too many slow motion fight scenes that are hilariously terrible. Comes with the usual head crunching fist fights that go on for 20 minutes at a time and the rest of the cast are pretty much pushed to the side with as little screen time as possible. Compared to Statham's other films this one is a load of rubbish but I still consider it to be the lesser of 3 evils (the other two being The Gunman and Run All Night). Recommended if you want a film that requires you to switch your brain off.

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Mar 28, 2015

This movie is one of the most stupid I have ever seen, the action is just awful and script is all over the place, and the end is just dumb. can someone please pay this Jason Statham dude to stop show up in movies, why umanily have to suffer, why?

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Details

Production Company Lionsgate Films, SJ Heat Productions, Sierra / Affinity, Cinema Seven Productions, Current Entertainment, Quad Films, SJ Pictures, Silver State Production Services

Release Date Jan 30, 2015

Duration 1 h 32 m

Rating R

Genres

Tagline Never bet against a man with a killer hand

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