Metascore
40 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 14 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 14
  2. Negative: 5 out of 14
  1. Reviewed by: Tom Keogh
    80
    A careful, intelligent, and seamless design that makes room for a couple of unexpected twists.
  2. 75
    Doesn't come close to the pulp beauty and complexity of classic noir.
  3. 75
    Has the refined taste to crib from classics like "Double Indemnity."
  4. Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    60
    Director 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.
  5. A fine mood piece with lots of atmosphere and boasts terrific performances from its stars.
  6. 50
    The plot thickens and thickens and thickens until it chokes on a tangled mess of double-crosses.
  7. Reviewed by: Steven Mikulan
    50
    Manages to be a fun twist-within-a-twist movie.
  8. Style overwhelms substance by default.
  9. 40
    Director Mike Barber springs a twist ending that makes you sit up and stifle those yawns.
  10. Sadly, a film about betrayal is ultimately betrayed by the film maker's own lack of conviction.
  11. A cast almost talented enough to distract you from Ted Griffin's gimmicky screenplay.
  12. 25
    So concerned with being a film that it forgets to be a movie.
  13. 20
    A creakily mechanical B-noir.

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