Review of Sabotage (1937) by Sammurphy66 — 05 Aug 2014

Excessively violent and unbelievably scattershot, Sabotage is a mind-numbing onslaught of extreme blood and gore that completely fails to offer anything more to its audience.

This review of Sabotage (1937) was written by Sammurphy66 on 05 Aug 2014.

Sabotage has generally received positive reviews.

Was this review helpful?

Yes

More reviews of this movie:

More Reviews of Sabotage

Review of Sabotage (1937)

By Blairforce (2) on 08 Dec 2014

Why does Olivia Williams have to fake a terrible accent when The Schwartz doesn't? And what's with the editing…

Read Review

Review of Sabotage (1937)

By Oneof9 (2) on 02 Apr 2014

A lot of blood and guts and an extreme amount of foul language. The theme was nothing new. The movie just didn't work as a whole. Also, A…

Read Review

Review of Sabotage (1937)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 27 Mar 2014

This brutal, bloody, dark and at times gruesomely funny thriller isn’t some David Fincher-esque mood piece where all the clues come together…

Read Review

Review of Sabotage (1937)

By Keith Uhlich (870) for Time Out (7,510) on 28 Mar 2014

You’re thankful when Ayer stops trying to artistically tart up this Peckinpah-lite tale of vengeance and just lets his leading man do what…

Read Review

Review of Sabotage (1937)

By Diogomendes (161) on 28 Dec 2014

Excitement is in short supply in Sabotage, a movie that boasts a fine performance from Arnold Schwarzenegger but adds poor characterization…

Read Review

Review of Sabotage (1937)

By Striderkiwi (23) on 30 Mar 2014

Arnold was great in it and it's uber violent in all the best ways, but it's also not an action movie…

Read Review

Review of Sabotage (1937)

By Bruce722 (221) on 28 Jan 2015

Sabotage was a movie was so much potential but ultimately failed to live up to that potential because it had a ridiculous premise…

Read Review

Review of Sabotage (1937)

By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 27 Mar 2014

This is an extremely gory flick, with autopsy scenes to complement Schwarzenegger’s usual shoot-first sensibilities…

Read Review

Review of Sabotage (1937)

By Qgal5Kap (53) on 10 Jul 2014

When will Hollywood learn that making your super awesome action hero suddenly loose accuracy, is not a good way to create suspense…

Read Review

Review of Sabotage (1937)

By Stephen Whitty (1,794) for Portland Oregonian (2,019) on 27 Mar 2014

So Ayer, the director of the new Sabotage, does it smartly, subtly, by keeping some of the Schwarzenegger totems -- the masculine power, the…

Read Review

More reviews of this movie

Reviews of Similar Movies

Review of The Condemned (2007)

By V.a. Musetto (698) for New York Post (6,650) on 26 Apr 2007

The Condemned, directed by Scott Wiper (appropriate last name), is a bad rip-off of the 2000 Japanese sensation Battle Royale and the 1932…

Read Review

Review of The Killers (1946)

By Brody M (674) on 24 Oct 2011

Definitely prefer the 1946 version.The 1964 version was alright but a little cheezy…

Read Review

Review of Harakiri (1962)

By Taochou W (2) on 07 Mar 2008

Hypocricy overshadowed the production for me…

Read Review

Review of Soldier Blue (1970)

By Joe C (1,448) on 01 Apr 2010

Well that was just a BAD film. What starts out as a goofy Candice Bergen / Peter Strauss rom-com, by the end turns into a gore-fest…

Read Review

Review of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008)

By Manohla Dargis (1,909) for The New York Times (9,847) on 24 Feb 2013

See the Holocaust trivialized, glossed over, kitsched up, commercially exploited and hijacked for a tragedy about a Nazi family…

Read Review

Review of Deep Water (2022)

By Mark Kennedy (184) for The Associated Press (882) on 16 Mar 2022

Deep Water, despite an all-star team behind it, barely makes a splash…

Read Review

Review of Beau Travail (2000)

By Olivierpiel (101) on 22 Jun 2020

91% score and I never felt more let down…

Read Review

More Reviews

Popular Movies Right Now

Joker

2019

81%299 Reviews

Three Thousand Years of Longing

2022

65%84 Reviews

Ghostbusters: Afterlife

2021

66%228 Reviews

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

2023

85%233 Reviews

The Equalizer

2014

69%994 Reviews

Ready Player One

2018

72%1,541 Reviews

Deadpool 2

2018

76%1,635 Reviews

Godzilla vs. Kong

2021

66%184 Reviews

Inside Out

2015

86%1,276 Reviews

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One

2023

79%186 Reviews

Movies You Viewed Recently

Sabotage

1937

72%67 Reviews

My Perestroika

2010

75%18 Reviews

The Whisperer in Darkness

2011

65%20 Reviews

The Catcher Was a Spy

2018

58%33 Reviews

The Spiderwick Chronicles

2008

64%654 Reviews

Split

2017

71%1,218 Reviews

Aniara

2019

63%29 Reviews

A Muppet Family Christmas

1987

76%280 Reviews

Stardust

2007

76%908 Reviews

A Little Help

2010

48%101 Reviews