Most Wanted: Critic Reviews

...directed with bland efficiency...

Wayans ... has the physique for action heroics, but he has the soul of a comedian.

Quite simply, Most Wanted is hack work, from every word of Wayans' screenplay to every exposed frame of David Glenn Hogan's direction.

Blandly generic and transparently derivative, pic appears to have been cobbled together from bits and pieces of earlier, better thrillers.

...just another generic action flick.

Aside from a quirky performance by Jon Voight and a couple of well-executed action sequences, there's little to distinguish this Keenen Ivory Wayans production from dozens of other assassination-conspiracy thrillers.

Not only is the screenplay for Most Wanted laughably absurd, but it contains line after line of the worst dialogue available in any film currently on a multiplex screen.

Keenen Ivory Wayans ... is said to have done some of the research for his story on the Internet, which is just one more reason to fear the influence of this technological monster.

Wayans looks the action hero: buff, cool, and stoic, but in straying from his normal comedic persona he also strips himself of any charm and personality.

Weak action movie. Not enough thrills to elevate the totally average story.

The result is an all-around competence that seems more than the sum of its parts.

[T]he film isn't as terrible as you might think - it's just bad.

Not Bad.

There's nothing hugely wrong with Most Wanted, except that it's painfully predictable and rather unconvincing.

Most Wanted is an overly familiar B-grade action flick...

The movie is a conspiracy thriller with plenty of action scenes but not much in the way of tension or excitement.