Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning 2012

Andy Webster, New York Times: This bloody wallow in sweat, guns and fisticuffs - for those who swing that way - delivers. Read more

Scott Bowles, USA Today: Universal soldiers, it seems, never die, even if they deserve a slow and deliberate farewell. Read more

Clark Collis, Entertainment Weekly: So gruelingly violent you half wonder if director John Hyams' goal is to make the audience get up and leave the theater rather than be party to the brutality. Read more

William Goss, Film.com: A B-movie that's often bloody, sometimes bizarre, but rarely boring. Read more

Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter: Superbly choreographed and filmed action sequences enliven this ultra-violent B-movie. Read more

Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times: The movie creates something of the sensation of huffing industrial solvents - in a good way! - a waking-sleep zombification that can't exactly be described as pleasurable but definitely has an odd, distinct power. Read more

Richard Brody, New Yorker: Several sequences of this gorefest, which is posed between hyperkinetic martial-arts mayhem and near-static moments of confusion and terror, have a gleeful virtuosity that nearly redeems its lumbering longueurs and generic splatter. Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: "There... is... no... end" Van Damme announces in between blows. As a comment on the current film, I'll agree. As a prediction - all I can do is shudder. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Anyone who stumbles into "Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning" unprepared is bound to leave shellshocked. Not just because of the movie's brutal violence, but from the stunning realization that this grim franchise will never stop regenerating itself. Read more

Kyle Smith, New York Post: An intensity of purpose and a patient, suspenseful directing style make the B-movie "Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning" superior to most of the big-budget action films I've seen lately. Read more

Ian Buckwalter, The Atlantic: Day of Reckoning is somehow not just the best film in the series, but a damn fine piece of action filmmaking by any measure. Read more

Keith Uhlich, Time Out: It's almost worth wading through the wearisome setup to get to the fun stuff. But there is a reason fast-forward buttons were invented. Read more

Joe Leydon, Variety: The grand finale is a series of what appear to be single-take sequences of bone-breaking, bullet-blasting violence, almost all of it presented with a practical-effects, minimal-CGI approach bound to impress genre devotees. Read more

Chris Packham, Village Voice: Against the prevailing cheerlessness, these intensively choreographed fights, many shot in audacious, roving single takes, are like glimpses into a dream world. Read more