After she betrays a powerful mob boss, a woman matches wits and weaponry with a legion of killers who are out to collect the bounty on the heads of her and her family.
There's the pervasive feeling that this is a prefab cult film that doesn't need to try too hard, instead offering cosmetic variations from a very limited playbook of gestures meant to provoke Pavlovian cries of "Awesome!"
– Vadim Rizov,
AV Club,
26 Feb 2015
rotten:
What on earth is Salma Hayek doing starring in this exploitative, junky piece of torture trash?
– Joe Neumaier,
New York Daily News,
26 Feb 2015
rotten:
Salma Hayek plays a sex slave turned killer in this stylish but lumbering actioner.
– Justin Chang,
Variety,
26 Feb 2015
rotten:
Feels precision-engineered for a morally torn fanboy who likes the idea of female empowerment but needs it served with a heavy dose of torture porn and glistening flesh.
– Robert Abele,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Feb 2015
rotten:
The film's brutality - which includes not only the murder of a dog but also a fetishization of torture that borders on porn - is so excessive, even if tongue-in-cheek, that it leaves a bad taste in the mouth.