Though ordained from the beginning, the three-way showdown that climaxes the film is tense and thoroughly astonishing.

Dave Kehr

Chicago Reader

An improbable masterpiece -- a bizarre mixture of grandly operatic visuals, grim brutality and sordid violence that keeps wrenching you from one extreme to the other.

Michael Wilmington

Chicago Tribune

All told, and in giant widescreen, it's only blood-red adolescent fun, but it blooms like Douglas Sirk with a Gatling gun compared to the teenage demographic's current fare. Matrix, schmatrix: This is the season's supreme party movie.

Michael Atkinson

Village Voice