The Hollywood Reporter critic Frank Scheck praised the film's "appealing performances, sun-dappled cinematography and occasional witty dialogue", but thought that it was "contrived and derivative" and "a little too pleased with itself". The Globe and Mails Rick Groen called The Go-Getter "a fairly well-made picture that's just been fairly well-made too many times before, a knock-off of a thousand other knock-offs".
The critic Frank Scheck from The Hollywood Reporter commended the film's "charming performances, bright cinematography, and occasional clever dialogue," but found it to be "artificially constructed" and "unoriginal." Rick Groen of The Globe and Mail described The Go-Getter as "a solidly made movie that's just been made too many times before, a replica of numerous other films."