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55 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 14 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 14
  3. Negative: 0 out of 14
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  1. New York Post
    Reviewed by: V. A. Musetto
    88
    The entire film is a feast for the eyes that brings to mind the work of Hong Kong ace Wong Kar-Wai.
  2. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    75
    Lee pushes this joyride into stimulation overdrive, playing with colors and film speeds and surfaces and shadows until it makes perfect sense that a movie should be all about energy, rather than -- well, about anything else at all.
  3. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    70
    For all his mastery of his medium, Lee is no less effective in directing actors than in creating images.
  4. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Michael Wilmington
    63
    A flashy, splashy and violent chase thriller.
  5. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Staff [Not Credited]
    63
    The script's clichés have nowhere to hide.
  6. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Stephanie Zacharek
    60
    Lee can't tell a story to save his life, but he's something of a visual magician, laying out glittering piles of goodies that you instinctively want to follow.
  7. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: A.O. Scott
    60
    This crowd-pleasing spectacle is like a series of showstopper sequences from a musical without much attention paid to the story that is supposed to hold it all together.
  8. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Lisa Alspector
    60
    Images about imagery can be diverting, even insightful, but this painterly 1999 feature piles up studies in elaborately choreographed motion that are their own reason for being.
  9. Mr. Showbiz
    Reviewed by: Michael Atkinson
    59
    The first 15 minutes of Nowhere to Hide rock, and after that it's got nowhere to hide from its own excesses.
  10. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: William Arnold
    58
    The characters are uniformly repulsive, the cliche-ridden script builds no real tension or psychological interest, and the bottom line is that Lee's innovative but ultimately tedious and even ludicrous MTV-style visuals add absolutely nothing to the story dynamics.
  11. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: David Sterritt
    50
    The action of this South Korean melodrama is fast and furious, but its emotions and ideas don't manage to keep up.
  12. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Mick LaSalle
    50
    A Korean film that takes an American genre and gets fancy with it.
  13. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    50
    With a little more plot, this could have been a killer.
  14. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Dennis Lim
    40
    Lee's trickery is dazzling in flashes but also monotonously strenuous -- the derangement factor is high but there's little evidence of authentic lunacy.
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