| Critics
Reviews |
Average
Grade: |
B- |
|
|
Source |
Brief Review |
Grade* |
Atlanta
Journal-Constitution
Steve Murray |
"Not worth
seeing once, much less twice."
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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."
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B |
Chicago
Sun-Times
Bill Zwecker |
"...an exciting
thriller."
more... |
B |
Chicago
Tribune
Michael Wilmington |
"...surprisingly satisfying..."
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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..."
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B |
Hollywood
Reporter
Michael Rechtshaffen |
"...a smart,
explosive techno-thriller that remains
compelling right up until its brain-twisting
(but ultimately logical) ending."
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A- |
New York
Post
Lou Lumenick |
"Washington is
such a virtuoso actor that we can buy the
movie's wilder flights of fancy..."
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B |
New York
Times
Manohla Dargis |
"...a
Bruckheimer-and-Scott partnership is only as
good as its screenplay, and this one is a
mess."
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D+ |
ReelViews
James Berardinelli |
"...one could
argue that the movie features one of the
most original car chase sequences ever
committed to celluloid."
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B |
San
Francisco Chronicle
Ruthe Stein |
"...needlessly
complicated and confusing..."
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C |
Seattle
Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold |
"...lavishly
mounted, compulsively exciting and
intellectually intriguing..."
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B+ |
USA Today
Scott Bowles |
"...cannot
escape the weight of its murky science,
action-film formula and preposterous
ending."
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C |
