Cat Run 2011

Stephen Holden, New York Times: An 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. Read more

Nick Schager, Time Out: A third-generation Tarantino rip-off distinguished only by its equal-opportunity nudity. Read more

Scott Tobias, AV Club: Words 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. Read more

Todd McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter: A brazenly efficient and articulate female assassin nearly worthy of a Tarantino or Coen Brothers movie sticks out from amidst the schlocky criminal muck of Cat Run, a self-consciously sleazy comic crime saga composed of facetious elements. Read more

Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times: It's easy to feel sucked into some kind of time warp back to the heyday of late-'90s post-Tarantino crime thrillers, cut-rate knockoffs filled with casually cartoonish violence, quippy patter, overtly flash filmmaking and incongruous pop tunes. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Though John Stockwell's action comedy is shamelessly derivative, his enthusiastic cast propels it much further than it should go. Read more

John Anderson, Variety: If you can't dazzle 'em with brilliance, baffle 'em with genre baloney -- and enough shoplifted visual trickery to fill Quentin Tarantino's kitchen sink. Read more

Michelle Orange, Village Voice: Director John Stockwell uses split screens, a blaxploitation soundtrack, and hammy, Get Smart sound effects to put some old-school spring in Cat Run's step. It makes for an odd combination with the film's ecstatic, viscera-laden violence. Read more