- Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
- Release Date: Sep 10, 1999
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80A careful, intelligent, and seamless design that makes room for a couple of unexpected twists.
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75Doesn't come close to the pulp beauty and complexity of classic noir.
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75Has the refined taste to crib from classics like "Double Indemnity."
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60Director Mike Barker has delivered a film that proves there's life left in the old genre yet, and does so with style, intelligence and surprisingly little violence.
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60A fine mood piece with lots of atmosphere and boasts terrific performances from its stars.
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50The plot thickens and thickens and thickens until it chokes on a tangled mess of double-crosses.
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50Manages to be a fun twist-within-a-twist movie.
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50Style overwhelms substance by default.
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40Director Mike Barber springs a twist ending that makes you sit up and stifle those yawns.
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38Sadly, a film about betrayal is ultimately betrayed by the film maker's own lack of conviction.
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38A cast almost talented enough to distract you from Ted Griffin's gimmicky screenplay.
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25So concerned with being a film that it forgets to be a movie.
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20A creakily mechanical B-noir.
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0An inept low-budget thriller.