“The deep-rooted silliness makes it hard to take anything in the film seriously. But at least it has the decency never to ask us to.” Keith Staskiewicz, Entertainment Weekly

“In Stolen, [Cage] steals away with nothing; he’s simply stalled out.” Stephanie Zacharek, NPR

“Unconscionably boring. The real act of theft here is of the ninety minutes the picture steals from your life.” Frank Swietek, One Guy’s Opinion

“Stolen begins at overdetermined, makes a pit stop at outright sadistic and winds up in the parking garage of ridiculous even for a movie of this sort.” Glenn Kenny, MSN Movies

“For all the heists, chases and shoot-outs, it’s a sluggish picture. Characters feel the need to stop the action to explain themselves. Thoroughly.” Roger Moore, McClatchy-Tribune News Service

“Cage is uncharacteristically muted. He seems to have given up on making art long ago; these days, all he wants to do is entertain, and with Stolen, he succeeds, albeit only on the guilty-pleasure level.” Nathan Rabin, AV Club

“‘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