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John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press: Don't let the subtitles fool you; the movie only proves that Hollywood no longer has a monopoly on mindless action. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: One scarcely needs the subtitles to enjoy this colorful action farce. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Wasabi is slight fare indeed, with the entire project having the feel of something tossed off quickly (like one of Hubert's punches), but it should go down smoothly enough with popcorn. Read more
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: Like being trapped inside a huge video game, where exciting, inane images keep popping past your head and the same illogical things keep happening over and over again. Read more
Elvis Mitchell, New York Times: [Tries] to parody a genre that's already a joke in the United States. The movie is the equivalent of French hip-hop, which also seems to play on a 10-year delay. Read more
Manohla Dargis, Los Angeles Times: Dawdles and drags when it should pop; it doesn't even have the virtue of enough mindless violence to break up the tedium of all its generational bonding. Read more
Matt Weitz, Dallas Morning News: The film is a contrivance, as artificial as the video games Japanese teens play in a nightclub sequence, but it's an enjoyable one. Read more
Paul Malcolm, L.A. Weekly: The film lapses too often into sugary sentiment and withholds delivery on the pell-mell pyrotechnics its punchy style promises. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: The funny thing is, I didn't mind all this contrived nonsense a bit. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Reno does what he can in a thankless situation, the film ricochets from humor to violence and back again, and Ryoko Hirosue makes us wonder if she is always like that. Read more
Jonathan Curiel, San Francisco Chronicle: A silly, cross-cultural shoot-'em-up -- the sort of movie that will work for those with some time to kill. Read more
Laura Sinagra, Village Voice: The real charm of this trifle is the deadpan comic face of its star, Jean Reno, who resembles Sly Stallone in a hot sake half-sleep. Read more