"Roger Ebert for the "Chicago Sun-Times" scored the film 3 out of 4 stars, comparing it favorably with "Sin City" as "the most audacious, implausible, cheerfully offensive, hyperactive action picture [he had] seen".Frank Scheck in "The Hollywood Reporter" called the film a "ramped-up action movie on steroids" that "makes "Hard Boiled" look restrained".