A young boy learns that a superhero who was thought to have gone missing after an epic battle twenty years ago may in fact still be around.... (Full plot summary below)
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A young boy learns that a superhero who was thought to have gone missing after an epic battle twenty years ago may in fact still be around.
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| TheWrapWilliam BibbianiAvery’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. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperThis is an entertaining B-movie bolstered by performances from a cast that often rises above the predictable material. |
| Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayBoth Stallone and the assured young actor Walton give fine, nuanced performances — as does Asbaek. The premise of “Samaritan” is the stuff of cartoons, but the actors makes the stakes feel real. |
| SlashfilmSarah MilnerThose who remember a time when afternoons were spent pumping quarters into Street Fighter II and fantasizing about Sylvester Stallone beating up your bullies, will no doubt feel a surge of nostalgia — and a healthy dose of dopamine — watching Samaritan. |
| The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckStallone provides just the right amount of world-weary gravitas and deadpan humor to put over the hokey material. And he still has the requisite imposing physicality to make the sight of his character beating up men a quarter of his age fairly convincing. |
| Paste MagazineAndrew CrumpThe 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. |
| VarietyOwen GleibermanSamaritan is basic enough that it often plays like a video-game film in which someone forgot to add the CGI. But the movie builds to a very good twist, and Stallone, in his way, brings a vibe to it, complete with an ’80s kiss-off line (“Have a blast!”) delivered in a growl so deliberate it practically etches itself into the scenery. |
| ReelViewsJames BerardinelliSamaritan isn’t terrible but neither is it especially good. It’s a B-grade comic book movie that looks, sounds, and plays like a B-grade comic book movie. |
| The Seattle TimesSoren AndersenOriginality was on vacation when this picture was made. |
| The A.V. ClubBrett BuckalewIt’s both ironic and fitting that while Samaritan positions itself as fresh territory for the actor, it’s only entertaining once it belatedly refashions itself as a throwback to vintage Stallone fare. |
