Badly written, ineptly staged, horribly acted, historically suspect and boring beyond belief ...

It's not worthless, but it's not good. As a genre film, it's too ambitious; as an art film, it's too obvious.

Make no mistake, for all the deferred killing, this is still a bloody affair, one which takes a grotesque glee in arrows being shot through faces and impromptu torture sessions.

The result is not only ineffective but becomes a dramatically inert, overly violent embarrassment for both De Niro and Travolta.