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70It's fast, slick, stupid, violent fun and, despite the cynically high body count, without serious intention in this world.
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63Derailed has a great setup, a good middle passage and some convincing performances. Then it runs off the tracks.
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63It's a cheap thrill, with twists that later seem evident and foreshadowing that often seems obvious, with a B-movie look and vibe reminiscent of the much tighter "Jagged Edge."
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63A movie so hysterical it worked best as a black comedy.
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50This flaccid psychological thriller keeps spoiling its own surprise by constantly signaling the big plot twist.
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50The strapping Owen as a guy who can't handle himself and cutie-pie Aniston as a witchy woman? I don't think so. Talk about derailed.
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50Rapidly devolves into a pedestrian thriller in which almost nobody behaves in a recognizably human way.
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50James Siegel's best-selling thriller Derailed is a perfect commuter book that has become the most imperfect of movies.
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50Owen is all right as the harried husband whose relationship at home has turned frosty, but the essential heat between him and Aniston is missing. The actress succeeds in shedding her "Friends" persona, but there's something missing here, especially as things get knottier.
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50The perky Aniston is both unflatteringly photographed and utterly unconvincing in the pivotal role of Lucinda, and overall the film has the oddly disconnected quality of '70s Euro-thrillers whose international casts spoke different languages on the set and were dubbed into conformity.
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50A tawdry, predictable hunk of movie headcheese, and I still had a pretty good time with it.
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50Gratuitously brutal, chronically preposterous, abysmally unoriginal, pretty much pointless and virtually 100% free of credible characters, Derailed represents career lows for its stars while marking an unpromising English language debut for its director.
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50For some reason Derailed never fully engages our sympathies. I think that's because it's difficult to swallow Owen as anything other than eminently resourceful.
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50Stay home.
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50For starters, everything's grimy and humorless in a way that infects even Aniston.
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50Clive Owen proves he can just about save anything.
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50Villain? Great. Verdict? Average.
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50Watching this thriller is like drinking milk that's about to turn: it looks OK but smells a little dodgy.
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42A junky thriller that mistakes brute-strength plot twist, showy violence, and the against-type participation of Jennifer Aniston for earned excitement.
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42Every swing of its plot is preposterous, it stumbles to a trick climax that any regular moviegoer will figure out in the first 10 minutes, and the ending is so absurdly unmotivated that it plays like a slap in the face.
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40There's a good film in here somewhere, but it's buried under a messy structure and unclear direction.
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40Much of the second half is spent waiting for the other shoe to drop, though you don't have to have 20/20 vision in order to see the big twist coming from miles away. Once it arrives, the film officially disembarks from reality with an over-the-top climax and denouement that play shamelessly to the bloodthirsty masses.
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40This murky psychological suspenser manages the tricky feat of being as predictable as it is finally preposterous.
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40Jennifer Aniston brings a needed liveliness to Derailed, though not enough to go around.
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38Clumsy, miscast thriller.
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38Tedious and predictable, it employs obvious situations and clichés instead of genuine suspense-building elements.
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38Most painfully, the semi-alert Owen and the leaden Aniston go together like sausages and syrup.
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33Was the Swedish director, Mikael Hafstrom, taking revenge on the American star system?
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30Directed by Swedish filmmaker Mikael Håfström, who's clearly new at the genre, this aptly named movie is riddled with obvious parallels, crude moral talking points, a script so awful it's practically avant-garde, and a vain attempt at comic relief by RZA.
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30Riddled with holes and undeveloped characters, and marred by lurching rhythms that may reflect some triage editing, so it's hard to see what Mr. Hafstrom brings to this film other than a murky palette.
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25Poor casting is compounded by a ludicrous script.
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25Swedish director Mikael Håfström's Derailed makes "Fatal Attraction" look positively subtle, while mustering none of the nuance or moral complexity (not to mention the sexual chemistry) of "Unfaithful."
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20Derailed seems to want badly to be described as contemporary noir. But it's just pitch-dumb.
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Train wreck.
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