Gangster No. 1 2000

Elvis Mitchell, New York Times: Certainly the performances are worthwhile. Read more

Jan Stuart, Newsday: They crush each other under cars, throw each other out windows, electrocute and dismember their victims in full consciousness. And we don't avert our eyes for a moment. Read more

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: Gangster No. 1 is solid, satisfying fare for adults. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: A canny, derivative, wildly gruesome portrait of a London sociopath who's the scariest of sadists. Read more

Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: A movie that hovers somewhere between an acute character study and a trite power struggle. Read more

Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: Director Paul McGuigan and cast infuse the proceedings with a strong dose of psychotic gusto and visual flare. Read more

Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: Clever, brutal and strangely soulful movie. Read more

Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: Seeks to transcend its genre with a curiously stylized, quasi-Shakespearean portrait of pure misogynist evil. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The film has a kind of hard, cold effect. Read more

Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle: Doesn't offer much besides glib soullessness, raunchy language and a series of brutal set pieces ... that raise the bar on stylized screen violence. Read more

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Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: As happily glib and vicious as its characters. Read more