The world's deadliest assassin and New York's biggest screw-up are mistaken for each other at an Airbnb rental.
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- ShaydeknightJuly 10, 2026The Man from Toronto is a comedy that forgets to be funny and an action film that forgets to be exciting. Some films fail by aiming high and missing. This one fails by barely aiming at all. The central problem is chemistry, or the total absence of it. Kevin Hart and Woody Harrelson are stapled together for ninety-odd minutes of mismatched-buddy shtick, and at no point do they feel like two people who enjoy sharing a scene, let alone a screen. They're going for Rush Hour and they're just not even close. Hart is, as usual, merely tiresome. His broadly comic fish-out-of-water routine, the wide eyes, the rising panic, the rapid-fire deflections, has curdled into shtick at this point, a bit he performs regardless of what film he's in. Credit where it's due, though: he was genuinely good in the second "Jumanji," playing essentially the same put-upon-everyman character but doing it as Danny Glover's tranquil and relaxed character, which gave the joke a shape and a punchline. Here, there's no such trick to hide behind, and the goofball charm wears thin well before the second act. Harrelson fares no better, though the failure isn't really his. His character is supposedly a master of numerous martial arts and lethally dangerous to anyone unlucky enough to cross him, yet what we get on screen is an older man moving through fight choreography without much conviction, urgency, or menace. Harrelson is a fine actor, and I like his work generally, but this role needed someone whose physicality actually sold the premise, and he isn't that person here. The action itself is watchable but forgettable, competent in the way of a film that clocked in, hit its marks, and clocked out. Nothing embarrassing, nothing memorable. The one genuine bright spot is Pierson Fodé as the Man from Miami. He's magnetic in a film that otherwise has trouble generating any electricity at all, and he makes a strong case that the villain's role should have had more screen time than the leads. The script does the rest of the damage. Harrelson's character undergoes a transformation over the course of the film, growing to tolerate, even care about, Hart's character, but the writing never earns it. There's a token backstory wedged in as justification, and it lands as unsatisfying and thin, a plot device rather than a real motivation. The film wants emotional moments it hasn't built toward, so those moments arrive saccharine and unconvincing, tacked onto a story that hasn't done the work to support them. Add in a parade of moments that strain credibility past the breaking point, and the film ends up asking a lot of an audience it hasn't given much reason to trust. What's needed is more heart from Hart and more woodenness, in the sense of stone-faced competence, from Woody. Instead we get the inverse of both. The result is a film that isn't quite bad enough to be interesting and isn't nearly good enough to recommend, a boring, barely watchable way to burn a Saturday afternoon with a packed bowl and a bag of Doritos.
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The Man from Toronto was released on June 24, 2022.
The Man from Toronto was directed by Patrick Hughes.
The Man from Toronto has a runtime of 1h 53m.
The Man from Toronto was produced by Todd Black, Steve Tisch, Jason Blumenthal.
The world's deadliest assassin and New York's biggest screw-up are mistaken for each other at an Airbnb rental.
The key characters in The Man from Toronto are Teddy (Kevin Hart), The Man from Toronto (Woody Harrelson), Anne (Kaley Cuoco).
The Man from Toronto is rated PG-13.
The Man from Toronto is an Action, Adventure, Comedy film.
The Man from Toronto has an audience rating of 4.6 out of 10.
The Man from Toronto had a budget of $75M.