Tag (2018)
Every year since primary school, five highly competitive friends (Jeremy Renner, Ed Helms, Jake Johnson, Hannibal Buress and Jon Hamm) stage an epic, no-holds-barred game of tag. As in: "tag, you're it". This year, the only undefeated player is getting married which makes him an easy target...
- Director:
- Jeff Tomsic (feature debut)
- Writer:
- Rob McKittrickMark Steilen
- Cast:
- Jeremy RennerEd HelmsJake JohnsonHannibal BuressAnnabelle WallisRashida JonesIsla FisherLeslie BibbJon Hamm
Reviews & comments
Flicks, Steve Newall
flicks"Can’t keep runnin' away", The Pharcyde proclaim in Runnin', their 1995 single that bookends Tag. Elsewhere the music supervision department has worked overtime to cram in the classics (Danzig’s Mother, Ozzy’s Crazy Train, Ice-T’s Colors), but it’s that Pharcyde hook that sets up the film and its truth-is-stranger-than-fiction premise - what if you could keep running away, perhaps in a game of tag that’s lasted thirty years?
Variety
press"Tag" leaves audiences energised and, dare I say, inspired, having delivered all that outrageousness... in service of what ultimately amounts to a sincere celebration of lasting human connections.
The Guardian
pressSurprisingly, there's emotional resonance in this slapstick flick about friends who are terrified to hug.
The Age
pressDespite the occasional mockery of action-movie cliches, Tag contains more tame, ad-libbed banter than inventive chase sequences.
Sydney Morning Herald
pressTag contains more tame, ad-libbed banter than inventive chase sequences.
Stuff
pressTag really isn't a film with much on its mind except to entertain you. And at that it mostly succeeds.
Hollywood Reporter
pressTag is neither bad nor good, but rather, despite its out-there story, almost numbingly ordinary: an easy, breezy action-com that's sometimes amusing but rarely funny, competent rather than inspired.
Flicks, Steve Newall
flicks"Can’t keep runnin' away", The Pharcyde proclaim in Runnin', their 1995 single that bookends Tag. Elsewhere the music supervision department has worked overtime to cram in the classics (Danzig’s Mother, Ozzy’s Crazy Train, Ice-T’s Colors), but it’s that Pharcyde hook that sets up the film and its truth-is-stranger-than-fiction premise - what if you could keep running away, perhaps in a game of tag that’s lasted thirty years?
Variety
press"Tag" leaves audiences energised and, dare I say, inspired, having delivered all that outrageousness... in service of what ultimately amounts to a sincere celebration of lasting human connections.
The Guardian
pressSurprisingly, there's emotional resonance in this slapstick flick about friends who are terrified to hug.
The Age
pressDespite the occasional mockery of action-movie cliches, Tag contains more tame, ad-libbed banter than inventive chase sequences.
Sydney Morning Herald
pressTag contains more tame, ad-libbed banter than inventive chase sequences.
Stuff
pressTag really isn't a film with much on its mind except to entertain you. And at that it mostly succeeds.
Hollywood Reporter
pressTag is neither bad nor good, but rather, despite its out-there story, almost numbingly ordinary: an easy, breezy action-com that's sometimes amusing but rarely funny, competent rather than inspired.
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