Much sound and fury ensues, but without a compelling story behind it, it signifies very little.
– Trevor Johnston,
Time Out,
12 Mar 2014
rotten:
Battle for Blood is ultimately too accurate a subtitle; this film is a bloodbath, and not an edifying one in the slightest.
– Michael Nordine,
L.A. Weekly,
22 Jul 2014
rotten:
Essentially 108 minutes of woad-daubed Scots and begrimed English settlers slogging it out over a castle on the Scottish border in 1221.
– Leslie Felperin,
Hollywood Reporter,
22 Jul 2014
rotten:
The title's promise of violence is dutifully met in gory, sonically squishy close-quarter melees shot in Confuse-o-vision, as if the camera had been strapped to a whirring blender before the footage was edited with the puree button.