"IF DAVID CRONENBERG AND LUC BESSON HAD A MUTANT BABY, IT STILL WOULDN’T BE ABLE TO MAKE A MOVIE QUITE AS HYPNOTICALLY BADASS AS THIS. John Hyams is a leading candidate for the title of Best Action Director Working Today. It delivers excitement without insulting the intelligence. SOME OF THE MOST IMPRESSIVE ACTION OF THE NEW CENTURY."
-Nick Schager, Village Voice
"IF MORE ACTION MOVIES WERE LIKE UNIVERSAL SOLDIER: DAY OF RECKONING, THE WORLD WOULD PROBABLY BE A BETTER PLACE."
-Bilge Ebiri, New York
"This bloody wallow in sweat, guns and fisticuffs — for those who swing that way — DELIVERS."
-Andy Webster, NY Times
"Definitely has an odd, distinct power."
-Mark Olsen, LA Times
"IT CUTS DEEP. ONE OF THE BEST ACTION MOVIES OF THE YEAR. A remarkably satisfying action-thriller that keeps hitting the right beats."
-Eric Kohn, Indiewire
"Superior to most of the big-budget actions films I’ve seen lately."
-Kyle Smith, NY Post
"It's great. Surprisingly great."
-Alex Pappademas, Grantland
"SURPRISINGLY COMPLEX AND AMBITIOUS."
-Louis Black, Austin Chronicle
"It’s no stretch to say this is THE BEST UNIVERSAL SOLDIER MOVIE – better to say it’s the biggest cinematic boner your inner 17 year-old boy is likely to have this season."
-Luke Y. Thompson, Nerdist
"I KIND OF LOVE THIS MOVIE."
-Matt Singer, Indiewire
"INTENSE, BRUTAL AND BEAUTIFUL ALL AT ONCE. A bold new direction for the franchise universe, and still every bit a Universal Soldier movie."
-Fred Topel, Crave
"Eye-popping visual style."
-Bilge Ebiri, New York
"Perversely fascinating. A freewheeling mashup of noirish mystery, splatter-movie intensity, first-person-shooter vidgame and "Apocalypse Now"-style surrealism. The bone-breaking, bullet-blasting violence is presented with a practical-effects, minimal-CGI approach bound to impress genre devotees."
-Joe Leydon, Variety
"One of the most remarkable action films of the 21st century."
-Boxoffice.com
"*****Can’t say it enough. SEE THIS MOVIE."
-CHUD
"**** An incredible, intense cyberpunk action film that would make Nicolas Winding Refn crack a smile."
-Filmthreat
"It’s original, brutal, well acted and with the best fight scenes you’ll see this year."
-The Action Elite
"**** One of the most brutal and disturbing movies I’ve ever seen."
-The Action Elite
"Skillful and crowd-pleasing action."
-Film School Rejects
"Slashing, limb-severing, body-pounding action."
-Movieline
"Makes A Star Out Of Scott Adkins."
-Movieline
"One of the Best Action Movies of the Year."
-Indiewire
"The full-speed ahead testosterone of this thing would classify it as an illegal steroid if it were distilled into injectable form."
-Nerdist
"This is the best Universal Soldier movie…it’s the biggest CINEMATIC BONER your inner (or outer, depending) 17 year-old boy is likely to have this season."
-Nerdist
"Intense, brutal and beautiful all at once."
-Crave Online
"Adkins ignites the screen."
-Twitch
"One of the best hand-to-hand screen fights in recent memory."
-Twitch