Kandahar - Movie Reviews (2024)

As far as his collaborations go with Butler, it’s, unfortunately, his weakest, even if he manages to get a great performance out of him. Here’s hoping his next B-grade action film will be significantly better.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Mar 6, 2024

Kandahar is a typical Gerald Butler’s mindless, obscenely violent action film without a soul.

Full Review | Oct 25, 2023

Formulaic chase thriller, that's tedious but is at least competently made.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Sep 26, 2023

The beginning plants an idea that goes beyond the genre, and the audience can take it or leave it. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 31, 2023

Though it sounds like a conventional action movie, Kandahar... subjects Butler to a journey in which he will encounter different characters who are wounded –not so much physically, but spiritually- by the war. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 30, 2023

Their new film is a competent war action thriller that shows us the fate of the people who were not able to leave when the allied forces did.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 25, 2023

Kandahar frames itself within the action genre with characters that fall into stereotypes and exaggerations, even reaching the point of ridicule, and it becomes a simplistic message about its own subject. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10 | Aug 22, 2023

Kandahar is blighted by predictable action, one-dimensional characters and a political sensibility that’s best described as jingoistic, jaundiced and xenophobic.

Full Review | Aug 22, 2023

“Kandahar” is a failed final product, with interesting intentions, but too irregular an execution. If only it were more tense, and if they had removed some unnecessary secondary characters, I'm sure the film would have been better. Full review in Spanish.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 21, 2023

While the political machinations of how Butler found himself in hot water in the first place are frustratingly muddied... Nevertheless, he's a reliably rugged presence perfectly at ease with what he's tasked to do.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 15, 2023

Gerard Butler proves he has more in the tank than just thoughtless action with this Middle East-set thriller, which is unexpectedly interested in the people and politics behind the usual explosions.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 10, 2023

‘…a more-than-watchable star-vehicle, but falling way short of what a gallus unit like Butler should be able to bring to the fray…'

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 8, 2023

The action sequences are not gripping and the quiet moments are as subtle as a battering ram

Full Review | Aug 5, 2023

With minimal dramatic elements that are included as a checklist, explosions and shootouts, the movie becomes unacceptable... [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Jul 27, 2023

And though the film's reach greatly exceeds its grasp, it's something of a treat to see the always charismatic Butler try his hand at something a bit more substantial than his usual fare.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 25, 2023

It is a bit forgettable that makes it feel too familiar to the point that you wish you were watching something else

Full Review | Original Score: C | Jul 22, 2023

It’s not unwatchable, although some of it is plainly unforgiveable.

Full Review | Jul 20, 2023

... The ensemble gives off an unmistakable '80s aroma that smells like napalm in the morning. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 20, 2023

Plenty of action but only action. No reason to root for the characters, aside form what they were , not who they were.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10 | Jun 17, 2023

Kandahar’s remorseful tone about US foreign policy is ironic, considering where, and under whose supervision the movie was made.

Full Review | Jun 17, 2023