Semper Fi

"'Semper Fi' is best when it sticks with the journeys of the individual characters (...) But something goes wrong along the way, and [it] suddenly decides it wants to be another kind of movie. The transition doesn't work (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)" 

"Half 'The Deer Hunter' (...) and half prison-break thriller. Both halves are handled well (...) But whenever the film shifts its focus to one side of its story, the other suffers" 

"Fascinating characters get sacrificed to flat melodrama" 

"Though professionally smooth in execution, 'Semper Fi' has the frustrating sum impact of a movie at fundamental conflict with itself" 

"Neither substantial enough to work as compelling drama nor sufficiently suspenseful as action-thriller."