Given the impossibility of his assignment, Michael Chiklis doesn't do half badly as Belushi -- he`s clearly a better actor, though not necessarily a better comic, than the original -- but otherwise Wired can claim only camp value.
– Dave Kehr,
Chicago Tribune,
4 May 2014
rotten:
The result is a film that hedges its bets but still manages to portray the destructive power of drugs.
– Gene Siskel,
Chicago Tribune,
4 May 2014
rotten:
What you're left with is a vague portrait of the artist as the victim of too much, too soon.
– Carrie Rickey,
Philadelphia Inquirer,
4 May 2014
rotten:
You leave this movie unenlightened about who John Belushi really was, or why he abused himself so badly.
– Jay Boyar,
Orlando Sentinel,
4 May 2014
rotten:
The crippling flaw in the film lies in its mix of surface daring and inner funk. Inside, it keeps flinching.