John "Breacher" Wharton leads an elite DEA task force that takes on the world's deadliest drug cartels. When the team successfully executes a high-stakes raid on a cartel safe house, they think their work is done – until, one-by-one, the team members mysteriously start to be eliminated. As the body count rises, everyone is a suspect.
Director David Ayer has made two of the best films about the tough lives of cops -- Training Day and End of Watch -- but his streak ends with the very violent and ultimately forgettable Sabotage.
– Cary Darling,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com,
28 Mar 2014
rotten:
Sabotage starts off as a fun, nasty, occasionally surprising little piece of genre filmmaking. But it gradually loses the thread.
– Bilge Ebiri,
New York Magazine/Vulture,
28 Mar 2014
rotten:
For most of its running length, Sabotage is a gritty, compelling motion picture with twists to make a pretzel envious. Unfortunately, it overstays its welcome.
– James Berardinelli,
ReelViews,
28 Mar 2014
fresh:
What redeems all this, to some extent, is Ayer's bleak but honest vision... he understands how law-enforcement people witnessing the depths of humanity might lack the necessary character to climb back up.
– J. R. Jones,
Chicago Reader,
3 Apr 2014
rotten:
I don't know what Ayer is trying to prove by dunking the camera in spilled guts and having it linger over charred and frozen corpses.