One Day as a Lion

The movie has the kind of personality and heart too often missing from grimy little crime pictures. It’s endearingly ramshackle.

Tying together its subplots in the final act, this mishmash of genre tropes and eccentric characters occasionally sparks to life but overall feels more familiar than fresh.

... mixes drama and comedy to fascinating effect, crafting a film that evokes the narratives of a classic Elmore Leonard tale with the expected crime tropes, but executes in a way in which it comes off fresh and with plenty of heart.

One Day as a Lion has the whimper of a weak and rambling vanity project rather than the roar of a great action flick. Scott Caan just wants to show off doing fight scenes in his underwear. J.K. Simmons is slumming it in this garbage film.

Scott Caan has definitely earned his place at the table&#59; this is not his father James's showbiz. Now you have to write, produce, and often direct the vehicle that allows you to do some acting. Caan the younger is good at this. Hope to see more soon.

A harmless crime B-film that never roars.

One Day as a Lion certainly isn’t Swab’s best film... [but]it’s certainly more than enough to entice the viewer to see what the singular director has up his sleeve next&#59; the wait, luckily, shouldn’t be long.

One Day as a Lion should be a better movie than what’s presented, but it’s bogged down trying to be a weak impression of a Coen Brothers or Tarantino film.

For those who enjoy quirky crime movies “One Day As A Lion” turns out to be a pleasant diversion.

It's not great, but Swab (working from a script by Caan) once again finds ways to upend genre expectations.