“‘At last,’ Alice narrates, ‘we thought we had survived the horror.’ But no.” Roger Moore, McClatchy-Tribune News Service

“It doesn’t help to have Jovovich, Guillory, and Rodriguez in charge of the acting here. The three anti-Streeps slog through Anderson’s god-awful dialogue with a peculiar drowsiness.” Brian Orndorf, Blu-ray.com

“Most franchises which make it to 5 movies start to run out of ideas by then, but if Retribution has one glaring problem it’s that it has far too many of them.” Joshua Tyler, Giant Freakin Robot

“I half-believed this movie was, indeed, a video game that Paul W.S. Anderson was playing in his underwear while smoking a bong.” Kevin Carr, 7M Pictures

“The script is incoherent and the acting is terrible—avatars would have been an improvement.” Rafer Guzman, Newsday

“It’s all the same blah-blah carnage as the first four flicks, with 3D effects hurling blood, blades and body parts into the audience amid a non-stop barrage of gunfire and explosions.” Linda Barnard, Toronto Star