A group of teenage girls heading into the city hook up with a gang of drug-addled ne'er-do-wells and are brutally murdered. The killers find their way to the home of one of their victim's parents, where both father and mother exact a horrible revenge.
In the end, like virtually every other remake that has been released recently, it's polished and predictable.
– Mike Mayo,
Washington Post,
13 Mar 2009
rotten:
Boy, words can not express how much I just loathe and detest this movie.
– Ben Lyons,
At the Movies,
16 Mar 2009
rotten:
It's that first 30 minutes that ruin this movie.
– Ben Mankiewicz,
At the Movies,
16 Mar 2009
fresh:
Extremely entertaining if you don't mind being morally corrupted at every juncture.
– David Edelstein,
New York Magazine/Vulture,
16 Mar 2009
fresh:
Dennis Iliadis's remake retains its ferocious power and provocative themes, and thanks to a focused script that unfolds in real time, it ratchets up the suspense and sucks us into a remorseless cycle of violence and revenge.