Variety
Infused with an all-inclusive affection for 1990s action films — not just multiplex spectacle, but the sort of direct-to-video fare that employed the likes of Michael Pare and Wings Hauser — “Gridlocked” is brutally and divertingly efficient as an old-school, high-body-count shoot-’em-up. While the premise may be a hat-tip to “The Hard Way,” the seriocomic 1991 actioner that featured James Woods as a hardboiled cop forced into a ride-along partnership with movie star Michael J. Fox, the focus is an intense heroes-under-siege situation. Genre fans and other B-movie aficionados likely will feel they got sufficient bang for their bucks after renting or streaming this throwback pastiche.
