Jeremy of The Daily Rotation wrote, "When a movie boasts a cast like Jason Statham, Clive Owen and Robert De Niro you would think that the movie would be something that is either really good thanks to the collection of action stars or really bad, but still entertaining on some sort of B movie level, but Killer Elite is neither of those scenarios, instead the film is a bore, with very little going on. The trailer promotes a slew of random action sequences, that look both awesome and silly to any action fan, but the actual film itself contains maybe 15 minutes of action, the rest of the film is bogged down by its crummy dialogue. The film should have tagged on a question mark at the end because I honestly didn’t know who the killer elite was/were."
