Rendall and screenwriters Russell Mulcahy and John Kim forget that in between bursts of tart, blood-drenched mayhem, there's a saggy, dumb chamber drama that's completely bland and under-seasoned.
– Robert Abele,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Sep 2012
fresh:
This likable trash occasionally outsmarts more moneyed Hollywood fish features.
– Guy Lodge,
Variety,
17 Sep 2012
rotten:
[It] has many flaws, the foremost among these is the inability to indicate whether we're supposed to consider the savage behavior brought on by its crises as ambiguous or unassailably good.