A dour slog through rote conspiratorial territory without a distinguishing factor to be found beyond the capable lead.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 5, 2021

[A] cynical and violent exercise that never figures out which story it wants to tell.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 26, 2021

The plot is wilfully dumb, the message pernicious. Momoa walks through it, his emotions running the gamut from A to... well, just A.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 25, 2021

And about two-thirds in there is a huge twist that does not work for this viewer. I can see the intention: to put a different cast on everything that has happened, all the violence and mayhem.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 20, 2021

A sprawling, bruising, sometimes convoluted, often emotionally exhausting drama with action sequences stitched into it.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 20, 2021

The film's true stars are the stunt and fight coordinators who render these clashes in visceral, mostly realistic fashion, although they eventually lose impact through their sheer repetitiveness.

| Aug 20, 2021

Too often this feels like a project that insists on delivering poor facsimiles of iconic scenes.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 20, 2021

To be honest, the whole movie is a big, clunky throwback to '90s cinema.

| Original Score: C | Aug 20, 2021

We're not buying what the script is selling, not for a hot second.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 20, 2021

The simplicity of the visuals means there is little to distract from how characters have been cast in the movie's morality play...

| Aug 20, 2021

To be sure, Big Pharma execs make for natural movie villains these days, but this story could have used a tad more subtlety, something that was in short supply here.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 20, 2021

When the action mechanics kick into gear, it's yet more of the same with very little to distinguish it from the pack.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 20, 2021

Casting its brutal action and anguished family drama in amusingly over-the-top terms, the film confirms that, though Hollywood may not make brawny B-movies like they used to, perhaps they should....

| Aug 20, 2021

Momoa can believably howl in anguish and throw a devastating punch, but he can't carry a script this muddled.

| Aug 20, 2021