Rotten Tomatoes, a
review aggregator, reports that 14% of 21 surveyed critics gave the film a positive review; the average rating was 4/10. The site's consensus reads: "Poor performances, stiff dialogue, flat characters, and an unimaginative stab at the mood of the
Guy Ritchie crime caper make
Dead Man Running into a hooligan tale with little to offer."
Kim Newman of
Empire rated it 2/5 stars and wrote, "This shaggy dog gangland story feels like a straggler from the batch of forgettable
Lock, Stock imitators greenlit a decade ago. It has a quality cast, but we've run round this track too many times, while the script jogs from scene to scene without any surprises." Ellen E. Jones of
Total Film rated it 2/5 stars and called it "amiable rubbish". Derek Adams of
Time Out London called it "budget-conscious, simplistically plotted and often cringingly performed".
Philip French of
The Guardian wrote that it is "a little uncertain in tone, but brisk and likely to go down well with the patrons of Albert Square's Queen Vic."
Peter Bradshaw, also of
The Guardian, rated it 2/5 stars and wrote, "For all the sub-Guy Ritchie cliches, it has its moments" and "is not as bad as it could have been." Robert Hanks of
The Independent wrote, "Is there any way of stemming the flow of post-Guy Ritchie cockney crime comedies? Would, say, sticking Danny Dyer's head on a pike somewhere in Bethnal Green be enough of a deterrent?" Derek Elley of
Variety wrote that the film "recycles Cockney crimer cliches to moderately entertaining results." == References ==