Puerto Rico · 2018
Rated R · 1h 42m
Director John Luessenhop, Jodi Scurfield
Starring John Travolta, Katheryn Winnick, Jennifer Esposito, Matthew Modine
Genre Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Speedboat racing champion and multimillionaire, Ben Aronoff (Don Aronow), leads a double life that lands him in trouble with the law and drug lords.
The Hollywood Reporter by John DeFore
Scurfield's directing debut is marred by all manner of clunkiness, from the embarrassing performance of Kellan Lutz (playing Lansky's chip-on-shoulder nephew, who winds up Aronoff's nemesis) to the tissue-thin montages that try to sell us on Aronoff's second career as a racer and maker of speedboats.
Film Journal International by Maitland McDonagh
Ultimately, Speed Kills feels startlingly like a 1990s direct-to-video action movie with an inexplicably inflated budget.
Los Angeles Times by Noel Murray
At every turn in Speed Kills, director Jodi Scurfield and a team of screenwriters sand the edges off a complicated, multi-decade saga, making a featureless knockoff of seemingly every sweeping true-crime movie of the past three decades.
RogerEbert.com by Simon Abrams
The film's Gerber-bland back half is plenty bad, but the first half of Speed Kills features some of the year's worst filmmaking.
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