Critic Reviews

There's nothing nice about 30 Minutes or Less. It's got no redeeming social value. It just ticks away, exploding all notions of where you think it's going to go. It blew me sideways.

At barely 80 minutes, the film seems like a slight little adventure, but Fleischer fleshes out his twists and turns to make it feel like a fully-rendered story.

Outrageous and endearing, the Zombieland team swaps horror for crime in a daft caper that's undoubtedly slight but terrifically entertaining all the same. Very fast and lots of fun.

Slight and not exactly memorable, but it moves quickly and has some surprising twists and top-notch performances all around.

Gut-bustingly funny -- perhaps this waning summer season's ultimate guilty pleasure.

Tone is critical to a movie of this nature, and Fleischer gets it right.

It's a brisk, though laugh-imbalanced, B-comedy with a hard R.

For every line or gag that works, there are three or four more that seem to belong in a different movie altogether, either a darker one or a breezier one.

There's too much cheese, but there are still enough amusing action beats and funny one-liners to let one say, 30 Minutes or Less delivers, more or less on time.

The movie ends up being just sharp enough at its peaks to be frustrating in its valleys. But the laughs are there.