'Sweeney' staggers in amid a hail of bullets and Cockney slang ★★★

Movie shootouts are often dazzling feats of marksmanship. Few filmmakers have the guts to show their version of "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral" the way such gunfights actually go down — dozens of rounds, most missing the mark; pistols popping off, incessantly, their owners unable to hit the broad side of a crook in the heat of battle.

By Roger Moore, McClatchy Newspapers

February 28, 2013