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Mixed or average reviews - based on 7 Critics

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  1. Positive: 3 out of 7
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  1. Reviewed by: Aaron Hillis
    50
    All that's left then is a miserablist analogue to M. Night Shyamalan's "Unbreakable," a sad portrait of paranoid delusion with wipe-out stunts played for the comic wincing of "Jackass."
  2. Reviewed by: Adam Markovitz
    58
    Thanks to Rapaport's brio in embracing the hero's drug-induced delusions, the movie is less a failure than a noble experiment gone awry.
  3. 75
    Special recalls a minor-key "Donnie Darko," but its vision is much more limited, and it sinks into Indiewood cliché whenever it reaches for profundity.