The movie's over-the-top big bads and gory vignettes are "tough, unyielding, not in the least devious or flippant in their self-indulgent way," D.C. alumnus David E. Grinspoon told The Washington Post.

"It's all about grisly pain, cruelly revealed to be nothing but cold, hard pain. It is no mean feat to make a movie in which there is no