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Metascore
9 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75RogerEbert.comNick AllenRogerEbert.comNick AllenIts story is as common as sunlight, but the entertainment can be just as warm.
- 70VarietyDennis HarveyVarietyDennis HarveySkiptrace remains lively, diverting, and essentially good-natured even when it’s cheerfully dumb, exploiting its diverse locations for every last drop of local color.
- 70Village VoiceSimon AbramsVillage VoiceSimon AbramsSkiptrace proves that nothing can stop Jackie Chan, not even poor judgment.
- 60The Hollywood ReporterJustin LoweThe Hollywood ReporterJustin LoweChan’s English-language dialogue occasionally comes across a bit muffled, but his body language rarely fails to connect. Knoxville thrashes about in a fairly undisciplined manner, but succeeds in providing a sizeable share of the comic relief.
- 50Slant MagazineKeith WatsonSlant MagazineKeith WatsonThe film's bloated action-comedy machinery prevents any real chemistry from forming between Jackie Chan and Johnny Knoxville.
- 50The A.V. ClubAdam NaymanThe A.V. ClubAdam NaymanKnoxville isn’t as starry a Hollywood foil to his co-star’s iconic stoicism as either Chris Tucker or Owen Wilson, but playing a jackass is right in his wheelhouse and in one action set piece, he’s very funny as a kind of tightly bound human prop.
- 42The PlaylistJordan RuimyThe PlaylistJordan Ruimy[Chan] brings energy to a film that desperately needs any kind of life, but there is only so much Chan can do.
- 40Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayLos Angeles TimesNoel MurrayToo much of this project feels like it’s been coldly calculated for maximum international box office.
- 30The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerThe New York TimesNeil GenzlingerSkiptrace settles for a warmed-over plot, tedious fight sequences and humor that’s heavy on crotch jokes and pratfalls.