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By Elliott Noble (448) for Sky Cinema (1,726) on 02 Feb 2010

For anyone prepared to make the necessary allowances - and there are a lot of them - it's an exhilarating ride…

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By Neil Smith (699) for Total Film (3,532) on 02 Feb 2010

Gibson proves he's still not to be messed with in a film that reasserts him as a sturdy, if rather grizzled leading man…

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By Adam Smith (163) for Radio Times (2,421) on 02 Feb 2010

Gibson is on good form and Campbell, as you would expect from the director of Casino Royale and GoldenEye, stages some effective set pieces…

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By Christopher Tookey (761) for Daily Mail (UK) (1,461) on 02 Feb 2010

Mad Mel can do vicious vengefulness like few others, but not even he can overcome a script that makes him do many things that are palpably stupid…

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By David Edwards (979) for Daily Mirror (UK) (1,133) on 02 Feb 2010

Although entertaining, if workmanlike, for the first hour or so, it gets too carried away with its conspiracies - plus Gibson's faux Boston…

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By Alex Zane (472) for The Sun (UK) (932) on 02 Feb 2010

Remember the Simpsons episode where Mel Gibson lets Homer re-cut his movie and the results are ridiculous? This is like that movie…

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By Leo Robson (65) for Financial Times (1,822) on 02 Feb 2010

As if to divert the viewer from the mounting feelings of frustration and bafflement, Gibson crashes a car or cracks a skull every couple of scenes…

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By Anthony Quinn (478) for Independent (UK) (2,026) on 02 Feb 2010

By the final reel the script has lost all interest in the plot's complexities and drops the pretence of darkness in favour of a frenzied shoot-'em-up…

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By Nicholas Barber (220) for Independent on Sunday (201) on 02 Feb 2010

Perforated with plot holes, and disastrously unsure of its tone, it starts steadily and sombrely, before switching to a hysterical parody of…

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By Larushka Ivan-Zadeh (441) for Metro (UK) (700) on 02 Feb 2010

A silly remake of the 1985 BBC TV series, this features the sort of tough-guy dialogue not growled since Arnie bowed out of cinema, eg: 'The…

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By Derek Malcolm (772) for London Evening Standard (2,015) on 02 Feb 2010

The film, while it doesn't lack tension, never catches fire. Compared with the mini-series, it seems flattened out and improbable…

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By Robbie Collin (1,612) for News of the World (402) on 02 Feb 2010

What's left still holds up nicely, thanks to firm plotting, Campbell's neat direction and a brace of decent performances…

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By Grant Lauchlan (65) for Daily Record (UK) (215) on 02 Feb 2010

Despite the sometime derivative trappings of the modern thriller, he delivers an intense slice of solid entertainment - although he never quite…

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By Alistair Harkness (1,042) for Scotsman (1,471) on 02 Feb 2010

It's no candidate for greatness, but it does a good job of condensing a six-hour story into a lean thriller without feeling as if too much…

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By Roz Laws (210) for Birmingham Post (543) on 02 Feb 2010

A bleak but engrossing and gripping thriller…

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By Catherine Jones (104) for Liverpool Echo (161) on 02 Feb 2010

The film version condenses six episodes of edge-of-seat suspense into an engrossing two hours…

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By Charlie Lyne (195) for Ultra Culture (187) on 02 Feb 2010

There are plenty of tense, even powerful moments, but they're surrounded by so much talky bullshit, illogical plotting and mumbly dialogue…

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By Ben Mceachen (47) for Sunday Times (Australia) (102) on 01 Feb 2010

Gibson remains as rough and tough as ever, yet his older figure and stern demeanour provide a personable core to what could have spiralled…

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By Anthony Lane (1,079) for New Yorker (1,403) on 01 Feb 2010

I liked the pace and the pulse of the film, but it launches no genuine surprise and, despite being irradiated with scenes of sickness and morbid…

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By Adam Lippe (129) for Examiner.com (1,617) on 31 Jan 2010

Ray Winstone's shady character represents both the screenwriter's desperate attempt at coherence and the audience's confusion; especially as…

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