SummaryAn estranged couple with a bounty on their heads must go on the run with their son to avoid their former employer, a unit of shadow ops that has been sent to kill them.
Directed By:Joe Carnahan
Written By:Leon Chills, Joe Carnahan
Shadow Force
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27
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May 9, 2025
50
It takes a certain esprit to pull off this kind of bombastic yet larky star vehicle. Joe Carnahan’s film provides passable diversion for a couple hours, but the fun to be had is limited by uninspired action staging, less-than-sparkling dialogue and a maudlin streak of the “It’s about family!!” type.
May 9, 2025
40
Though it’s positioned in the early days of the summer movie reason, Shadow Force winds up as an unintentional advertisement for staying home.
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May 13, 2025
4
Kerry Washington and Omar Sy are the latest couple to play former special ops agents. Because they left the organization under a cloud, she’s out to kill their detractors, while he lives an anonymous life with their young son (Jahleel Kamara). Of course, a bounty is put on their heads and they must flee before fighting back. Surprisingly, this film is more about discussion than action. There are several fight scenes and one chase, but they’re shot with sloppy camerawork and chaos cutting so it’s hard to appreciate what’s happening. As for performances, Washington and Sy make a charismatic couple and Kamara is a delightful charmer. This movie has less action than expected and what it does have isn’t unique or impressive.
Aug 27, 2025
3
Ahh, the CGI fog is here so it must be time for the big action scene where you can't see anything.
May 15, 2025
30
Shadow Force is more like the idea of a movie than a movie proper, totally generic and completely inert.
May 13, 2025
30
The charisma-endowed Washington and Sy do all they can to make the proceedings engrossing but even they are hard-pressed to make it interesting.
May 9, 2025
25
The sitcommy scenes of family arguments and droll wisecracks clash with the grimmer aesthetic Carnahan wants to give it, so “Shadow Force” feels like an action film serving two masters and fulfilling neither’s needs. It’s laughable, all right, but in all the wrong ways.
May 9, 2025
19
Nothing in Shadow Force surprises, delights or even attempts to raise your pulse above a twitch.
Jul 17, 2025
2
Lotado de lugares comuns, ação genérico, o velho apego familiar, os justiceiros, os semideuses cujas balas nunca acertam. É o feijão com arroz de sempre, regado ainda a uma trilha melosa. Encara?
May 9, 2025
0
With no exaggeration this is the single worst movie I have ever seen and it's not even close. It's so fascinatingly horrible. Like at times it feels like a PG-13 action family comedy, but then for the majority of the runtime it's the HARDEST R rated movie ever made. There's so, so much swearing. The violence is unnecessarily intense. The villain is literally British The Terminator. Holy ****. I'm excited. I'm excited to tell everyone this is the worst movie I've ever seen. Wow.
Production Company:
- Lionsgate
- Media Capital Technologies
- Made With Love Media
- Simpson Street
- Indian Meadows Productions
Release Date:May 9, 2025
Duration:1 h 44 m
Rating:R
Tagline:Family over everything.
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Awards
Image Awards (NAACP)
• 2 Nominations
