Cradle 2 The Grave 2003

Glenn Lovell, San Jose Mercury News: Cradle has everything -- except plot and a reason for Li's name-above -the-title billing. Read more

Janice Page, Boston Globe: This is a ride, a video game, a soundtrack -- unapologetic and clearly labeled as such. It has no middle speed. Read more

John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press: The script is so brain-dead and the characters so one-dimensional that you can't help but wish someone would had taken the plot half as seriously as the pyrotechnics. Read more

Cary Darling, Miami Herald: Cradle boasts a couple of bravura fight and chase scenes but they're stranded amid the predictable and the pedestrian. Read more

Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: This is just a horrible film, waste of time. Please, please avoid it. Read more

Robert K. Elder, Chicago Tribune: Bad movies kill you incrementally, but Cradle 2 to Grave is so egregiously slipshod, so flamboyantly awful, that it might get the whole job done in one sitting. Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: The cinematographer- turned-director likes his MTV-style editing so much that in his drive for hyperkinetic overkill he sacrifices coherence to wallow in barely contained chaos. Read more

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Manohla Dargis, Los Angeles Times: The few promising skirmishes that do erupt sputter out quickly as if fight choreographer Corey Yuen had dropped his cell connection while phoning in his moves. Read more

Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: The film is filled with astonishing set pieces that violate the laws of nature but are exciting, nonetheless. Read more

Scott Brown, Entertainment Weekly: You realize just how forthrightly rote and businesslike Cradle is. And you don't mind. Because business, it turns out, is good. Read more

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: The movie positively kicks aspirations. Read more

Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: It throws in enough calculated accouterments to honestly earn the label of 'product.' Read more

John Patterson, L.A. Weekly: Relentless, infantile and impossible to dislike. Read more

Gene Seymour, Newsday: The usual bang, boom, crunch and screech, though maybe a little more stylishly executed than most. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Sure to please slackjaws who are not tired to death of this kind of material recycled again and again and again. Read more

C.W. Nevius, San Francisco Chronicle: A perfectly serviceable mindless action film. Read more

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Cradle 2 The Grave is 2 ridiculous 2 B believed. And that's perfectly okay. Read more

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Mike Clark, USA Today: If you're a mortgage-paying grown-up, it seems like an eternity since most of the studio's output stopped being 4-U. Read more

David Rooney, Variety: In Cradle 2 the Grave, producer Joel Silver returns with gusto to the mix of martial arts action and urban attitude that proved so potent in Romeo Must Die. Read more

Jon Caramanica, Village Voice: [DMX] acts like he raps -- in fits and starts, with heaps of ruff growling. Li barely has enough lines to qualify for a SAG card. Read more