Most Wanted

Most Wanted (1997)

  • 16% of critics liked it
    (25 reviews)

  • 39% of users liked it
    (6,073 ratings)

Actor-comedian-talk show host Keenen Ivory Wayans stars in his own action thriller screenplay about a war hero who becomes the fall guy in a frame-up. During the Persian Gulf War, U.S. Marine Sgt. James Dunn (Wayans) refuses to shoot a young shepherd, struggles with a superior officer, and winds up… More

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R, 1 hr. 39 min.
Directed By
David Hogan
Written By
Keenen Ivory Wayans
Genres
Mystery & Suspense, Action & Adventure
In Theaters
Oct 10, 1997 Wide
On DVD
Sep 4, 2001
New Line Home Entertainment

Critic Reviews

  • Jack Mathews, Los Angeles Times

    Keenen Ivory Wayans ... is said to have done some of the research for his story on the Internet, which is just one more reason to fear the influence of this technological monster.

  • Joe Leydon, Variety

    Blandly generic and transparently derivative, pic appears to have been cobbled together from bits and pieces of earlier, better thrillers.

  • Rita Kempley, Washington Post

    Wayans ... has the physique for action heroics, but he has the soul of a comedian.

  • John Hartl, Film.com

    Aside from a quirky performance by Jon Voight and a couple of well-executed action sequences, there's little to distinguish this Keenen Ivory Wayans production from dozens of other assassination-conspiracy thrillers.

  • Joe Baltake, Sacramento Bee

    Not Bad.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Dean !


    This is a pretty decent action film, not heard of it before but it's pretty good if it was a straight to DVD release. The first 10 minutes are almost identical to Shooter released this year and the story is very similar. If you enjoyed that you should like this......any film with… More

  • danny d


    decent flick

  • Steven V


    This is a pretty decent action film. As an action movie it wasn't exciting enough. It also failed in an attempt to be a thriller. It really only succeeded in showing that dog food bags can be potential bombs.

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