If you’re looking for blood and viscera and creative hyper-violence to fuel your adrenaline rush, the movie delivers.

Evans may wade into deeper waters here — grappling with morality, loyalty, and personal failure — but he never loses sight of what he does best: delivering chaos with craft. A brutal reminder of why Evans remains one of action cinema’s most vital voices.

...the fight choreography is unflinching and exact, the mayhem sublimely staged.

To reach its apotheotic, five-star display of action wrapped in the aura of masters like John Woo or Johnnie To, a price has to be paid in the form of technical — and, to a lesser extent, narrative — excesses.