[It] may not have anything new to bring to the gallows, but what it does have is Marshall's deadly serious tone (one suspects Marshall could direct Robin Williams and Christopher Walken in Waiting for Godot and come out of it with his genre cred intact)

Marshall's adrenalin-fuelled skill and enthusiasm propel the action forward with reckless abandon.

As it slogs through one hectic yet mundane set pieces after another, the film slowly drowns in its own pool of clichs.

A sloppy ode to John Carpenter