Metascore
29 out of 100

Generally unfavorable - based on 26 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 26
  2. Negative: 16 out of 26
  1. Director Stephen Elliott has acquitted himself admirably in creating this serious thriller.
  2. Tries to blend old film noir and new high-tech thriller styles with only sporadic impact.
  3. Truly weird and unworkable thriller.
  4. 50
    Watchable even when what's going on makes no sense whatsoever.
  5. Reviewed by: Mike Clark
    50
    Far from being a run-of-the-mill slasher pic.
  6. Reviewed by: Jay Carr
    50
    Never brings its potentially intriguing plot strands into focus.
  7. 50
    As meticulously deranged as its paranoid protagonist.
  8. 50
    Elliot fails to make the needed connection between the audience and a peeper who has lost his moral balance.
  9. 40
    High-buffed, low-rack pulp.
  10. Reviewed by: Robert Horton
    40
    Not terribly enjoyable to watch.
  11. So stupid, so stupefying, so stupendously bad.
  12. 31
    Flows like day-old cement.
  13. 30
    Sitting through the film was an exercise in confusion.
  14. Reviewed by: Deborah Young
    30
    A mixed-genre detective pic, thriller and love story that shifts gears too often and doesn't know when to end.
  15. One very sick and messed-up movie.
  16. Attempts to convey emotional dislocation and passion at the same time. All we get is distance.
  17. 25
    A hackneyed psycho-sexual thriller with enough awkwardly executed Hitchcock references to qualify as a bad DePalma knock-off.
  18. 25
    There's not much else for viewers to do but give themselves over to the whims of the bad-movie gods.
  19. A perfect example of form without content.
  20. 20
    Intriguing for a while, then steadily more confusing and finally just incoherent.
  21. Reviewed by: John Hartl
    20
    Self-conscious clunker.
  22. Reviewed by: Eric Harrison
    20
    It isn't insultingly bad; it's just incompetent.
  23. Impenetrable mess of a movie.
  24. The single worst movie David Lynch never made.
  25. Reviewed by: Ted Gideonse
    10
    Hilariously incompetent.
  26. 0
    Pretentious, perplexing and plain rock-dumb movie.
User Score

Generally unfavorable- based on 7 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 4
  3. Negative: 4 out of 4
  1. ScottG.
    2
    Good elements: mood, pacing, Ashley Judd, a sense of danger, Ashley Judd, and -- uh -- Ashley Judd. Bad elements: the story, k.d. Lang (great singer, bad actor), the ending. It's interesting to watch, and totally forgettable once it's over. Full Review »
  2. floriano.
    0
    Waste of time.
  3. FredW.
    1
    Incoherent is the term that doesn't even begin to describe this mess. Ashley Judd doing a poor imitation of Angelina Jolie - Suggest that the best use of this DVD is skeet shooting. Full Review »