| Critics Reviews |
Average Grade: |
B- |
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| Source |
Brief Review |
Grade* |
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Steve Murray |
"Not worth seeing once, much less twice." more... |
C- |
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris |
"Usually a Scott-Bruckheimer production sends you home wanting a shower. But here they've caught the movie's unstoppable bayou spirit and send you home on a high." more... |
B |
Chicago Sun-Times
Bill Zwecker |
"...an exciting thriller." more... |
B |
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington |
"...surprisingly satisfying..." more... |
B |
E! Online
Luke Y. Thompson |
"...it's actually pretty damn good." more... |
B+ |
filmcritic.com
Sean O'Connell |
"For all its masochistic violence and blaring guns, the story finds its tension in a philosophical conundrum..." more... |
B |
Hollywood Reporter
Michael Rechtshaffen |
"...a smart, explosive techno-thriller that remains compelling right up until its brain-twisting (but ultimately logical) ending." more... |
A- |
New York Post
Lou Lumenick |
"Washington is such a virtuoso actor that we can buy the movie's wilder flights of fancy..." more... |
B |
New York Times
Manohla Dargis |
"...a Bruckheimer-and-Scott partnership is only as good as its screenplay, and this one is a mess." more... |
D+ |
ReelViews
James Berardinelli |
"...one could argue that the movie features one of the most original car chase sequences ever committed to celluloid." more... |
B |
San Francisco Chronicle
Ruthe Stein |
"...needlessly complicated and confusing..." more... |
C |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold |
"...lavishly mounted, compulsively exciting and intellectually intriguing..." more... |
B+ |
USA Today
Scott Bowles |
"...cannot escape the weight of its murky science, action-film formula and preposterous ending." more... |
C |
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