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9 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 60New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanThough John Stockwell's action comedy is shamelessly derivative, his enthusiastic cast propels it much further than it should go.
- 58The A.V. ClubScott TobiasThe A.V. ClubScott TobiasWords like "smug," "derivative," and "shallow" could all be fairly applied to the film, but as a piece of late-night exploitation, it delivers the violence and nudity with the regularity of an IV drip, and some familiar faces in the cast help class it up.
- Falls squarely into the a-family-needs-to-eat category, because there is a careless lack of attention about the whole thing, something that could be perceived as smugness if the film didn't feel so haphazard and lazy.
- 30Village VoiceVillage VoiceJanet McTeer, at least, delights as MI6's cruelly capable answer to Mary Poppins. She's a whiz at testicular vivisection, yet she still cannot save this film.
- 30The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThe Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThis low-rent, R-rated "Rush Hour"-ish comic caper could have been several notches better with more charismatic leads and some dialogue upgrades but still would have felt like a genre hand-me-down.
- 30The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenAn incoherent hybrid of buddy movie, "Girls Gone Wild" episode and James Bond spoof that employs cheap cinematic tricks like multiple split screens for no apparent purpose.
- 20Time OutNick SchagerTime OutNick SchagerIt's simply one wearisome '90s crime-cinema cliché after another.
- 20Boxoffice MagazineMark KeizerBoxoffice MagazineMark KeizerInside the dreadful action comedy Cat Run, there are about three terrible action comedies struggling to get out.