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Chicago Sun-Times by Bruce Ingram
The only real problem with Black Out, which plays like a cross between “The Hangover” and “Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels”-era Guy Ritchie, is that it’s naggingly over-familiar.
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What are critics saying?
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The film's various references to other stylistic touchstones, while thematically apt, rarely carry any sort of critical inquiry.
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Black Out ultimately limps to feature length, burying its intriguing leading man underneath endless mishaps and shenanigans.
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The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis
Taking a credibility-straining premise and running with it, the Dutch director Arne Toonen gives Black Out way more energy than sense. Luckily, his antihero, Jos (Raymond Thiry), lacks neither.
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Village Voice by Michael Nordine
A self-aware, borderline self-reflexive action-comedy from the Netherlands, Arne Toonen's Black Out is derivative in a way that undermines its wry sense of self.
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In the insufferable, secondhand tradition of countless other regrettable genre films, Black Out is so impressed by itself, it doesn’t even need an audience.
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Los Angeles Times by Sheri Linden
In terms of character and plot, not one element of the intended wild ride escapes self-consciousness or becomes the least bit involving.