…it is heartbreakingly prosaic realism, not flamboyant or attention-grabbing ★★★★★ Brian Viner, Daily Mail
It is a tense, unflinching and harrowing insight into the sacrifices made by today’s young soldiers in a very modern conflict ★★★★★ Henry Fitzherbert, Sunday Express
★★★★
Daily Mirror
★★★★
The Herald
This film possesses a lacerating power that reinforces its self-contained claustrophobia
★★★★
Andrew Pulver, The Guardian
It is vital and compelling viewing
★★★★
David Crow, The Sun
it’s a story so incredible it couldn’t have been made up
★★★★
David Edwards, The Mirror
Courageous and astonishing
★★★★
Harriet Notton, ZOO
Incredibly tense… it’s the British Hurt Locker
★★★★
Charles Gant, Heat
Gripping, epic war story
★★★★
Sunday People
a blistering war pic
★★★★
Nev Pierce, Empire Online
…the story is gripping and the men’s grim, and very British, sense of humour is nicely captured. This is a welcome alternative to ultra-American equivalents such as Lone Survivor
★★★★
Ed Porter, Sunday Times, Culture
A celebration of heroism and bravery in its purest form
Edward Frost, Film3Sixty
…utterly superb
Afzal Amin, Huffington Post
blisteringly realistic and powerfully moving
Ali Catterall, Total Film
This movie is astonishingly powerful
Piers Morgan Tweet
★★★★
Grazia
Excruciatingly tense
★★★★
Tim Robey, The Daily Telegraph
It may well be the best war film ever made
Jeremy Clarkson, The Sun
… high-tension British war film…
★★★★
Time Out, Dave Calhoun
A hard watch for anyone who served in that long war. But it’s a riveting, touching and important film for the rest of us.
★★★★
Star on Sunday
There’s no disputing the raw power of British war movie Kajaki.
★★★★
Jason Solomons, Mail on Sunday, Event
Brilliant, powerful, heart-stirring - everyone should see this film
Baz Bamigboye, Daily Mail
Astonishing… this film transported me back to Helmand
James Banks, Journalist and Helmand veteran
… a tense, moving companion piece to award-winning documentaries such as Restrepo
★★★★
Allan Hunter, Daily Express
The imp of hilarity is choked in us as it rises. But that imp is proof of Kajaki’s success
★★★★
Nigel Andrews, Financial Times
A monument to the courage of our soldiers, this film should be seen by everyone
★★★★
David Edwards, Daily Record
It’s gripping and tense. Unsqueamish in its depiction of injury, convincing in its portrayal of warfare.
Mark Kermode, The Observer