Ultimately the in-your-face style and confusing story stop the emotions from getting truly under your skin.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Ultimately the in-your-face style and confusing story stop the emotions from getting truly under your skin.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Peter Parker thinks he has problems if he can't pay rent, get a girlfriend, or if no one likes him. Boo hoo! Frank Castle has REAL problems, none of this wimpy crap.

~ Gator MacReady -

Peter Parker thinks he has problems if he can't pay rent, get a girlfriend, or if no one likes him. Boo hoo! Frank Castle has REAL problems, none of this wimpy crap.

~ Gator MacReady -

A clear, clean picture without tricks

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

A clear, clean picture without tricks

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Alvart has found a way to allegorise the survival (or otherwise) of humanity itself in an environment not unlike our own.

~ Anton Bitel -

Alvart has found a way to allegorise the survival (or otherwise) of humanity itself in an environment not unlike our own.

~ Anton Bitel -

There is no escaping the weightiness of the subject matter and Movermann treats it with the necessary respect, but he also shows evidence of a lighter touch, which helps to alleviate the pathos and prevents the film sliding into melodrama.

~ Adam Micklethwaite -

There is no escaping the weightiness of the subject matter and Movermann treats it with the necessary respect, but he also shows evidence of a lighter touch, which helps to alleviate the pathos and prevents the film sliding into melodrama.

~ Adam Micklethwaite -

Watchable and competent, if ultimately unsatisfying, actioner.

~ Stephen Carty -

Watchable and competent, if ultimately unsatisfying, actioner.

~ Stephen Carty -

One of the dullest films about war ever made.

~ Jennie Kermode -

One of the dullest films about war ever made.

~ Jennie Kermode -

One thing I particularly enjoyed was that it balances its study of Will with an exploration of Tom’s coming of age, while never making Will’s decision to drop out morally clear-cut.

~ Owen Van Spall -

One thing I particularly enjoyed was that it balances its study of Will with an exploration of Tom’s coming of age, while never making Will’s decision to drop out morally clear-cut.

~ Owen Van Spall -

Krikodas should be wary of letting his style run rampant over material that could have been both resonant and disturbing given some restraint.

~ David Graham -

Krikodas should be wary of letting his style run rampant over material that could have been both resonant and disturbing given some restraint.

~ David Graham -

Hostage is a brainless movie, masquerading as an intelligent thriller.

~ Gator MacReady -

Hostage is a brainless movie, masquerading as an intelligent thriller.

~ Gator MacReady -

The ‘bad guy’ really is the bank itself – or maybe the American Dream, a frothy notion that never had much currency here and is now bankrupt in the face of a recession.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The ‘bad guy’ really is the bank itself – or maybe the American Dream, a frothy notion that never had much currency here and is now bankrupt in the face of a recession.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Despite a plot that reads like something out of Teen Romance, the film has great style and a wicked sense of humour.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Despite a plot that reads like something out of Teen Romance, the film has great style and a wicked sense of humour.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

A functional disaster-cum-rescue film with a glut of special effects.

~ Luke Shaw -

A functional disaster-cum-rescue film with a glut of special effects.

~ Luke Shaw -

What should simply be a diverting no-brainer is made considerably harder to swallow by the script's shallow handling of some unsavoury subject matter.

~ David Graham -

What should simply be a diverting no-brainer is made considerably harder to swallow by the script's shallow handling of some unsavoury subject matter.

~ David Graham -

Lowery's nostalgia works because it is so sincere and does not question America's fascination with Bonnie and Clyde as an excuse for bad deeds.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Lowery's nostalgia works because it is so sincere and does not question America's fascination with Bonnie and Clyde as an excuse for bad deeds.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Mangold’s version proceeds far too quickly to a ludicrous, logic-defying shoot out.

~ Jeff Robson -

Mangold’s version proceeds far too quickly to a ludicrous, logic-defying shoot out.

~ Jeff Robson -

Sends an icy blast of fresh air into the moribund genre.

~ Anton Bitel -

Sends an icy blast of fresh air into the moribund genre.

~ Anton Bitel -