Midnight Express' meets 'Ong-Bak,' and that's a good thing.

Ultimately, there is something distasteful about this approach ― especially as the stylistic bravura seems calculated to leave minimal room for thought.

Overloaded with physical peril and over-strategized to convey the jitters of a strung-out junkie, the movie runs a deficit on emotional intelligence and journalistic information.

Not many films have the ability to touch you while at the same time showing you such horrible human brutality.