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The movie delivers on its own terms. It may emerge a bit bruised and tattered around the edges, but its ever-beating heart provides the ultimate Proof of Life.
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75Fortunately, this film doesn't have to depend on off-screen dalliances to prove its worth.
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73Proof of Life won't hold your heart hostage for very long after it's over, but here's looking at Russell Crowe -- he's the real deal, sweetheart.
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63I was interested all through the movie--interested, but not riveted. I cared, but not quite enough.
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63The romantic subtext of their characters' relationship is the film's chief liability, and feels forced and undeveloped.
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63Disappointingly routine kidnapping thriller with soap-opera trimmings.
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63Whatever romantic tension the film has is communicated in the coiled-spring performance by Crowe, one of the most remarkable actors working.
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63It's never enough of a grabber to keep the mind from wandering to the romance it apparently sparked.
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63It's absorbing, although draggy.
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60His (Crowe) emotionally charged performance stands in contrast to Ryan's annoying, movie-star turn.
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60Exactly the sort of good bad movie that Hollywood does best -- it's big, worthless fun.
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60Against the lush backdrop of the Andes, Crowe and Caruso define on-screen cool: good guys in a match of wits and firepower who even talk about their emotions.
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58When it's dull, which it is too often for a kidnap caper, this movie is about a woman chirping ''notice anything new about my outfit?'' to a man whose idea of style is a jacket not crusted in human blood.
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50Morse and Caruso provide better reasons to see this film than do Ryan and Crowe.
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50Everything about Proof of Life is intriguing and a little off.
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50An ambitious film that aims to examine the human equations behind the abductions. But for all its good intentions, it's not as subtle as it might be, and it's finally pitched too broadly to achieve the level of emotional truth it aims for.
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50What ultimately sinks this stylish but heartless film is a flat lead performance by the eternally snippy Meg Ryan.
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50This slick, handsomely produced thriller only gets the pulse half racing.
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50Crowe gets to use his real Aussie voice, which works better with that poker face, and his underplaying at times has a psychotic intensity. But Ryan looks dopey when she's supposed to be stressed-out.
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50In Proof of Life it's the same old story, a fight for love and glory, except that time goes by . . . slowwwwly.
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40Slim pickings.
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40This is half a good movie held hostage to the other, trashier half, and unfortunately for all of us, no rescue seems forthcoming.
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40Flat and thoroughly predictable piece of filmmaking.
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40A disappointingly routine thriller that prefers to lean on tired Hollywood conventions rather than to explore fresh dramatic and stylistic territory.
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30It's Rambo with a split hero -- Morse absorbing punishment and Crowe wreaking vengeance.
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25A hostage drama without any tension. It is a love story without any heat. It is as curiously empty a movie as we've seen all year.
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25A hostage drama that oscillates between soap opera and action flick.
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20Proof of Life kidnaps the audience, then tortures it to a slow death
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20Proof of Life isn't a movie. It's an overpriced scrapbook.