The Baytown Outlaws 2012

Stephen Holden, New York Times: If it has the right spit-in-your-face attitude, it has neither the stamina nor the wit to go the distance, although it makes it about two-thirds of the way. Read more

Rex Reed, New York Observer: A worthless farrago of noise, dirt and senseless violence ... Read more

William Goss, Film.com: Whenever The Baytown Outlaws shuts up and puts up, it makes a good case for its own existence. Read more

John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter: A barrage of unbelievable stereotypes try to kill each other in Barry Battles's dispiriting exploitation flick. Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: This is an ugly film. And the only thing uglier is thinking about who on earth the filmmakers thought they were making it for. Read more

Mark Jenkins, NPR: Although artistically slight and thematically haphazard, it's enjoyably flashy. Read more

Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: Director Barry Battles seems to believe his three grubby main characters are more charming than they are. Read more

Lou Lumenick, New York Post: [Contains] tin-earned dialogue and haphazard plotting ... Read more

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: In all seriousness, I'm not sure whether to recommend "The Baytown Outlaws" as a guns 'n' glory time-waster or warn you off it as a piece of mendacious trash. So I'll do both. Read more

Matt Singer, Time Out: It's unclear what drew the likes of Billy Bob Thornton, Eva Longoria and Andre Braugher to this tepid grindhouse retread, but at least they liven up the proceedings whenever they're onscreen. Unfortunately, that's not all that often. Read more

Joe Leydon, Variety: A boisterously Tarantinoesque mash-up of cliches, archetypes and bodacious craziness in the tradition of Southern-fried '60s and '70s drive-in fodder. Read more

Nick Schager, Village Voice: Diligently profane and inane ... Read more