This silly thrill-ride is much more fun than it has any right to be.

Cronenberg's creativity is what leads to a movie like this feeling so disappointing as the final credits begin to roll.

It will give opening weekend horror crowds what they are looking for (blood, gore, thrills, action and suspense). It will also give them way more.

It is an uncomplicated, very tense, efficiently told, pro-soldier/anti-war movie.

It is relatively light on blood and not scary at all. It is funny, though, and generally pleasant to watch.

It is entertaining, but reined in where chaos could have made it soar.

This is very skillful genre filmmaking, with an understated, no-nonsense, flair. It’s a pleasure to watch.

The jokes are mostly lame, the story absurdly predictable and the characters totally generic.

It isn’t a disaster by any means, but it is a tremendously disappointing mess.

I bounced back-and-forth between feeling something and being bored.