...a padded-out endeavor that fares quite well in its opening and closing stretches but strains to sustain one’s interest in its convoluted midsection...

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 20, 2024

It's not overly violent, exploitive, gratuitous, or edgy in any manner and the story is severely lacking creativity.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/10 | Dec 4, 2020

John J. McLaughlin's script is laughably bad.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4.0 | Sep 19, 2020

Be it on the printed page or on the silver screen, Parker -- and diamonds -- are a girl's (and guy's) best friend!

Full Review | Nov 27, 2019

Director Taylor Hackford is a schooled Hollywood veteran making his first action movie and, unlike the prefix of his surname might suggest, is experienced enough to adroitly balance chaos and coherence.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 9, 2019

The only reason to watch this movie is to laugh at Statham's hilarious attempt at a Southern accent, and even that isn't that funny after a while.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/10 | Nov 1, 2018

Poor J-Lo: there was a time when she co-starred with George Clooney, but 15 years on from Out Of Sight she's just a third wheel in this uninspired vengeance caper wherein The Stath is shafted by the Mob and vows payback.

Full Review | Sep 5, 2017

Randomly in the future you'll come upon it late one night on Starz, watch twenty minutes or so, then change the channel.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Feb 6, 2014

As a tasty but un-nourishing rehash, it's not bad.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Jul 13, 2013

The movie seems to suffer from a misguided attempt to chase the female demo.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10 | May 22, 2013

The action flick doesn't do much to wow you, but keeps things exciting.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 21, 2013

Calling "Parker" run-of-the-mill insults the pleasures of the potboilers it's trying to emulate. It feels like the product of misfits who broke into a mill shuttered on the edge of town and fired up the machines without understanding how they work.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | May 20, 2013

Hackford brings a sense of style and sure-handedness to the proceedings that is uncommon for films of this genre.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Apr 23, 2013

Parker is well executed, ultimately entertaining and totally consumable but hardly groundbreaking as action thrillers go.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 15, 2013

Even adding Jennifer Lopez to the mix in time for her to strip and show off her infamous rear doesn't add much in the way of silver screen sizzle.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 19, 2013

Statham puts the fun back into discriminate, pornographic violence.

Full Review | Mar 14, 2013

If Statham harbours ambitions of making a career-defining action thriller, Parker has to be seen as another opportunity lost.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 13, 2013

...to see [Lopez] wasted here, forced to behave girlishly and neurotically and eventually become a hostage, is insulting.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5 | Mar 9, 2013

We like you, Jason. You're perfectly acceptable in near-silent, pseudo-Asian action nonsense. But you, sir, are no Lee Marvin.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 9, 2013

Hackford approaches his task as if he's seen one of the duffer Elmore Leonard movie adaptations of recent years, or at least had one described to him.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 8, 2013