"On paper it looks like a case of the bland leading the blond. Yet thanks to some blistering carnage, a strength-in-depth ensemble (including Hugh Laurie as a tough-talking Internal Affairs man and rapper The Game as a scarily unhinged villain) and reams of hard-boiled verbals, Ayer's drama proves far more enthralling than you'd expect. Yes, Reeves is still too fresh-faced to convince as a latter-day Harry Callaghan, while it's no surprise to find out who's at the bottom of this particular conspiracy. For the most part, though, Kings delivers enough visceral thrills and juicy turns to compensate for its hand-me-down feel and Keanu's hilariously improbable capacity to extricate himself from two certain-death situations in the space of five minutes." Total Films ***