It's a movie that has it both ways; it shows how the sausage of freedom is made, with gory battles behind the façades of public life—but it turns that gory combat into a new façade, another illusion that hides still others that are far more complex, troubling, and unresolved. Leitch's film posits the very terms of Western-style freedom, and of the fun that it fosters and purveys, as this blissful state of not knowing—or, rather, it poses this not knowing as a blissful state.
Richard Brody
July 28, 2017