At its best, the movie is an effective political potboiler about the backdoor push for the 13th Amendment, with comic relief in the form of off - the - books operatives (James Spader, John Hawkes) dispatched on the sly to trade patronage jobs for votes. (philly.com)
There is good to be found in Spectre, but it's buried beneath three feet of potboiler muck and sandwiched in six inches of narrative grizzle. (silverscreenriot.com)
Hitman (Unrated) Action - oriented political potboiler about a cold and calculated, genetically - engineered assassin (Timothy Oliphant) being pursued across Europe by Interpol and the Russian military who suddenly discovers that he not only has a conscience but feelings for a mysterious femme fatale (Olga Kurylenko). (kamwilliams.com)