Snitch: Critic Reviews

91%

MovieWeb: 3 reviews

58%

Rotten Tomatoes: 12 reviews

Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

63

This movie executes two missions: A) to entertain us; and B) to put some big exclamation points on a couple of messages about certain drug laws in this country in need of a thorough re-examination.
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Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune (Top Critic)

75

"Snitch" has a way of keeping you guessing about the next turn in its story, and a way of keeping Johnson's character compellingly at the mercy of others.
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Peter Debruge Variety (Top Critic)

Designed to make empathetic citizens question the system, this strangely compelling issue pic plays less to auds' hearts than to their craving for testosterone ...
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Todd McCarthy Hollywood Reporter (Top Critic)

Unusual for this sort of thing, Snitch is a film for which you remember the characters and actors more than the big action moments.
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Moira MacDonald Seattle Times

63

"Snitch" is more of a dramatic thriller than an action movie, and director Ric Roman Waugh fills it with close-ups, dark interiors and tense faces.
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Matt Pais RedEye

25

I think the movie actually made my heart beat slower.
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Nathan Rabin AV Club

59

It builds into a moderately engaging character study of men driven to dangerous extremes by desperation ...
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Josh Bell Las Vegas Weekly

40

Waugh is more interested in inspirational melodrama and clumsy social commentary than in rousing action.
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Calum Marsh Slant Magazine

25

Snitch is the latest in a long line of films whose sole purpose is to flatten a major social problem into a pulp ideal for self-serious spectacle.
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Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com

67

Dwayne Johnson continues to develop as an actor in this well produced thriller, which quite effectively blends conventions of actioner, social problem film and family melodrama.
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John Hazelton Screen International

The film's first half is weighed down by cliched dialogue and clunky drama.
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Roger Moore Movie Nation

63

A straight-no digital chaser actioner, with the most subtle Dwayne Johnson performance ever.
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