Review Roundup: SABOTAGE Shoots Its Way Into Theaters Friday

The latest addition to Arnold Schwarzenegger's post political resume, SABOTAGE, hits theaters on Friday.

Originally entitled TEN, the film is a lose adaptation of Agatha Christie's AND THEN THERE WERE NONE (also known as TEN LITTLE INDIANS) mystery novel. It follows a DEA taskforce, who start getting picked off one by one after a successful raid on a drug cartel's safehouse.

The film co-stars Sam Worthington, Joe Manganiello, Olivia Williams, Harold Perrineau, Terrence Howard, Max Martini, Josh Holloway, and Mireille Enos.

Let's see what the critics had to say?

Manohla Dargis | New York Times

"Lovers of camp and cannabis are the most plausible audience for "Sabotage," given the giggle-to-bullet ratio in this extravagantly silly movie about a gang of marauding Drug Enforcement Administration undercover thugs." Read full review here.

Scott Bowles | USA Today

"Bloody, banal and boasting a surprisingly able clutch of stars who will soon be deleting this from their résumés, Sabotage is a 109-minute cadaver count." Read full review here.

Ty Burr | Boston Globe

"The new Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle, SABOTAGE, is stupid, sadistic, misogynistic, confusing, and more than a little ridiculous. Here's the thing, though: It keeps you watching, if only to see how tortured the plot or characters are going to get. I'm not sure that 'entertainingly awful' is a recommendation, but the shoe fits." Read full review here.

Kyle Smith | New York Post

"So Arnold Schwarzenegger has reached the shaky-cam-and-hoodies stage of his career. But it's a bit late in The Day for Arnold to try to get all indie and complicated." Read full review here.

Colin Covert | Minneapolis Star Tribune

"SABOTAGE is a damn fine whodunit with a surprising layer of pathos and depth. Amazingly, it's an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie. I can't remember the last time a Schwarzenegger flick even had a plot." Read full review here.

Scott Foundas | Variety

"A gruesome and frequently preposterous B-grade actioner about an elite team of DEA agents who run afoul of a ruthless Mexican cartel. That the team's battle-scarred leader is played by Arnold Schwarzenegger, in the best and most substantial of his post-Governator comeback roles, gives a mild kick." Read full review here.

Mick LaSalle | San Francisco Chronicle

"Schwarzenegger is the defining reality here, so if the story of Sabotage makes little sense, it doesn't matter. All that matters is that the writer-director, David Ayer, understood his job and did it." Read full review here.

Michael Phillips | Chicago Tribune

"Arnold-minded audiences eager to see him kill lots and lots of drug cartel minions should be ready for a slick, heaping helping of peppy sadism, and entrails hanging from a dead body nailed to a ceiling, and torture sequences, and numerous, digitally enhanced 'kill' shots." Read full review here.

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