Plot
After Parker is stiffed by his partners in a bank robbery, he vows revenge and tracks them to their next job, a jewelry heist in Palm Beach. With the help of his lover, Claire, and real estate agent Leslie Mackenzie, Parker stalks his victims and their loot.
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
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- 75Miami Herald - by Connie Ogle
Even the people who griped about Tom Cruise being cast as the towering Jack Reacher will have to admit Statham fits nicely in Parker's shoes. ...read more - 70Variety - by Brian Lowry
Crisp and efficient, with the occasional clunky moments, Parker also shows off Jennifer Lopez (literally) to good effect, while mostly squandering the rest of its first-rate cast. ... - 70The Hollywood Reporter - by Stephen Farber
The picture is far from great, but it's a serviceable B-movie with some A-list talent on a slumming expedition. ...read more - 70The New York Times - by A.O. Scott
Parker...is not a great movie....But Parker is nonetheless great fun. It is part of a welcome trend, or counter-trend, in action filmmaking, an effort to strip away the apocalyptic bloat and digital fakery that have overtaken the genre and return to its pulpy, nasty, mechanical roots. ... - 63ReelViews - by James Berardinelli
The action scenes are crisply directed, brutal, and invigorating. ...read more - 63The Globe and Mail (Toronto) - by Kate Taylor
The tight-lipped, give-no-quarter Statham is impeccable as the pitiless yet honourable Parker (though fans of the books will no doubt quibble, especially over the British accent). On the other hand, Lopez, that pleasant sex pot, hasn't a hope of producing the tragic desperation of her down-on-her-luck character. ...read more - 63Philadelphia Inquirer - by Steven Rea
Taylor Hackford directs crisply, unpretentiously. Patti LuPone goes Latina, playing Lopez's soap opera-addicted mom, and Bobby Cannavale is a Palm Beach cop with an eye for Leslie. The action is fast and furious. ...read more - 60New Orleans Times-Picayune - by Mike Scott
It's an uneven but fairly enjoyable ride, one that benefits from Statham's cool, capable presence. ...read more - 60Los Angeles Times - by Betsy Sharkey
If you're going to saturate a film with so much violence, at least it's nice to see an action hero - or antihero - actually feeling the pain. ...read more - 58Film.com - by Laremy Legel
Sometimes in life, simple pleasures can be rewarding, and that’s certainly the case here. Parker is not a particularly innovative film, but it’s no less effective for the blemish. ...read more - 58The A.V. Club - by Josh Modell
Though Parker starts off fairly strong, the action gets more predictable as it meanders toward its conclusion. ...read more - 50Washington Post - by Michael O'Sullivan
Parker the movie, like the man, delivers exactly as promised. ...read more - 50New York Post - by Lou Lumenick
Parker is watchable chiefly for Statham, who exudes effortless cool and excels in hand-to-hand combat, as well as demonstrating his skill at wielding some very unlikely weapons. ...read more - 42Entertainment Weekly - by Lisa Schwarzbaum
The movie is a morals-free procession of bang bang bang! and blood blood blood!, and men slamming each other with blunt objects and slicing each other with blades. ...read more - 40New York Daily News - by Elizabeth Weitzman
If you go in knowing what you're getting, you should come out relatively satisfied. Our hero vigorously beats up a parade of bad guys. Lots of bullets fly. There are a couple of decently plotted thefts. And to tell the truth, Statham's Southern accent is nearly worth the price of admission itself. ...read more - 38Chicago Sun-Times - by Peter Sobczynski
The best things about Parker are the two lead actors. Although working with material that is lackluster even by his standards, Statham manages to demonstrate a commanding screen presence that cannot be dismissed. ...read more - 38Slant Magazine - by John Semley
Tonally, Parker's not so much broad or inclusive as weirdly schizophrenic, vacillating between flat comedy and spiked savagery, the product of a painfully slapdash script that also includes such laughable incidental dialogue as "pizza-I love that sh.t" and "beers and jewels, baby." ...read more - 30Wall Street Journal - by Joe Morgenstern
The essence of this grindingly violent movie can be summed up by what Parker says of his handgun to a terrified clerk at a check-cashing service: "It's small, but it hurts." ... - 25
- 25New York Observer - by Rex Reed
For an old-fashioned crime thriller, you need real pros. Mr. Statham is to acting what Taco Bell is to nutrition. ...read more - 25Rolling Stone - by Peter Travers
This Parker spits in our collective eye. Don't blame us for spitting back. ...read more - 25The Playlist - by Drew Taylor
This newest film is an undercooked potboiler, one so tastelessly bland and visually indistinguishable that you wonder if anyone associated with the project realized what makes cheapo crime fiction so fun to consume. ...read more - 20Austin Chronicle - by Kimberley Jones
I have never doodled during a movie before in my life, but holy hell, Parker's two-hour running time takes a lifetime. Plenty of time for mental doodling, too. ...read more - 20Time Out New York - by Joshua Rothkopf
The smidgen of dramatic color offered by Jennifer Lopez, as a divorced real-estate broker drawn into Parker's payback scheme, is offset by her character's shocking naïveté, shedding her clothes on command (as if she still couldn't hide a wire somewhere) and falling unconvincingly for Statham's featureless cipher. ...read more
Parker delivers just about what the average viewer would expect from it: a Jason Statham-flavored action thriller (as opposed to, say, a Matt Damon-flavored action thriller or a Rock-flavored action t...
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Fans of the popular crime thrillers written by the late Donald E. Westlake under the pseudonym Richard Stark know that the fictional character called Parker is a professional thief with excellent work...
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Surprisingly that was pretty okay:) I was getting tired of Jason Statham playing the same role over and over again, but this one was a little different. Yeah it’s a typical Statham movie but I’m glad he tried a few different things like wigs and accents! 6.6/10 Plus he gets his ass handed to him multiple times in this movie, so I feel like they added that in because they knew the audience were sick of seeing Statham whoop 5 men without getting hit once. I thought Jennifer Lopez was going to be irritating in this but she was fine:) The trailer doesn’t do this movie any justice:/ It’s a very simple movie but I seemed to enjoy a lot more than I was expecting:D However the bad-guys are mediocre.