For the most part, the film is brilliant.

Cooper who was so poignant in "Lone Star," gives an emotionally robust performance.

Death and comedy rarely mix, and this tedious and painfully un-funny effort by director Darren Stein is no exception.

This isn’t a movie, it’s an outline for Happy Meals and theme park rides. Avoid at all costs.

Insipid, maudlin mush.

Rips out at least one dimension to reduce everything to archetypal good guys and bad guys, or bad guy and worse guys.

The tempo of the film does well to cure the unlikely romance with just the right amount of anxiety and the leads — especially Cook, who is wonderfully promising here — create an earnestly heartfelt chemistry.

Listless clunker.

The plot itself is a disappointingly gory concatenation of two recently forgettable sci-fi thrillers; "Hardware" and "Event Horizon."

It is not quite as stupid as it looks. I'm not saying it ISN'T dumb, though, just not as bad as I think even the studio thought.

It looks like Williamson threw five old scripts in the air and Rodriguez shot the first 90 pages he picked up. I'd like a little more meat on my burger because all I can taste is the cheese.

Takes an unexpected turn towards originality where every other "David vs. Goliath-courtroom drama" only strives.

Much of the animation is stunning and all of the vocal performances are good to great. It's just much of the passion seems to be in not stepping on anyone's beliefs or interpretations, instead of in telling the story in the most compelling way possible.

Boorman’s movies are usually about the repercussions of violence (Point Blank, Deliverance, Excalibur, etc.) but he recreates Cahill as something of a victim of circumstance. Cahill should have been played by Lee Marvin, not by some fat teddy bear of a man like Brendan Gleeson. It’s too bad Marvin isn’t still around, to at least knock some sense into his old friend, Boorman.

Thornton's Jacob initially comes across as the love child of Elmer Fudd and Butthead, but ends up as the best role he's ever had.

This movie best exploits the strengths of the show as well, such as the chemistry among the cast.

The screenplay has a strong sense of fun but after establishing its concept and characters it doesn't know where to take them.

The movie doesn't stink. The performances are good, potentially great, especially Vince Vaughn as Norman Bates.

This is a family film. There's a great deal of wackiness.

While one can detect a genuinely amusing screenplay somewhere under the flat direction and mysteriously stiff performances, the film is tediously slow.

I wasn't in the mood for this film, but it got to me anyway.

I can't really remember the last time I saw a movie with this much biting satire and brilliance that was utterly excruciating half the time.

It’s refreshing to see an animated film remain true to its audience and avoid becoming a Disney-clone. Diaper-loads of fun.

The strong parts are the rip-offs of "The Conversation." The worst part is the lack of understandable character motivations.

It lacks humor. Unlike "Scream", this film is more of a horror-drama, with everybody taking themselves way too seriously.

All of the nutty editing and the loud score just grated on my nerves and failed the story.

A sometimes gripping but mostly routine shoot-em-up about Muslim terrorism in American.

Now the big question: Does this whole thing actually work? Some of the time.