3 stars out of 5 -- "[With] a fearsome, both-barrels performance from Winstone....The cast are terrific, particularly McShane and Stephen Dillane..."
Total Film

"Writer-playwrights Louis Mellis and David Scinto have a way with deconstructing masculine ferociousness -- relishing in revealing the follies of machismo in extremis."
Los Angeles Times

4 stars out of 5 -- "Winstone hurtles, like a punch-drunk Hamlet, into a black hole of pathos."
Uncut

"[T]he dialogue, richly profane and Mametically self-conscious in its idioms, yields its own pleasures."
New York Times

3.5 stars out of 4 -- "One of the most compelling movies of '09....The cockney dialogue is infectious and brutal, making each speech cut deeper than a blade."
Premiere