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The New York Times by Ben Kenigsberg
Even with a few late twists, concept exceeds execution.
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Village Voice by Chris Packham
It's a black-comedy plot without any blackness or actual comedy, unless mugging and bro-heiming by Mad TV's Will Sasso counts as hilarious.
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New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman
Cryer makes a likable sad-sack and Will Sasso provides balance as his narcissistic best friend. But both guys deserve better. As do we.
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Los Angeles Times by Martin Tsai
An offbeat rom-com that ventures down the film-noir path, Hit by Lightning manages to make dark comedy fresh by combining two formulas.
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Hit By Lightning might have worked as black comedy, but Blitt clearly lacks any instinct for genuine darkness.
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service by Roger Moore
Slow-witted and slowly paced, with characters kept at arm’s length, our biggest concern is not whether Ricky will indeed be Hit by Lightning, but whether anybody will find a spark of life in this corpse of a comedy.
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From its uninspired, sitcom-y look to its phoned-in dialogue (“I love you plus infinity”; “I love you plus double infinity”) to its creaky plot, Hit by Lightning is anything but electrifying.
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The Hollywood Reporter by Sheri Linden
Thanks to Jon Cryer’s likable-schlemiel shtick, a lost-cause rom-com is more watchable than it has any right to be. But that’s not enough to make Hit by Lightning remotely involving.