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88A breathtaking exercise in the macabre, a gruesome thriller with quirky cops and a killer of Lecterian complexity, and even when the movie is perfect nonsense, it's so voluptuous that you're grateful to be watching it anyway.
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75Does not end well. But there's a lot of pleasure in getting there.
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75The Crimson Rivers could teach many an American thriller a thing or two about sophisticated creepiness.
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75Kassovitz keeps the film zipping along with solid pacing and just enough action to clear the credibility gaps as long as the film is rolling.
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63A confusing and not entirely believable ending clouds the issue, though, burying some fine performances and cinematography under an avalanche of gore and plot twists.
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63More amiably mindless summer distraction than just about anything Hollywood has to offer this season.
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60Glossy, gruesome police drama.
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60For most of its running time, this lunatic euro-thriller is creepy, stylish and occasionally suspenseful.
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60Never lacks for energy, and the director and his stars stride with focused confidence through the hooey.
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50Two things make this film slightly more interesting than its American B-movie equivalents. There's the artless way it shows the French state exercising its power and the charisma of French stars.
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50Dull and unpleasant.
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50Adequately entertaining but not particularly memorable.
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50Wants to be about life, death and the red liquid that flows beneath our skin. It ends up being more about stage blood and stupid plot tricks.
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40Never lets up: A door can't shut without sounding like a bomb going off; mutilated bodies show up with clockwork punctuality, gratuitously underscored by a relentlessly overbearing soundtrack.
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40The full explanation for the movie's graphically depicted horrors is preposterous even by the almost-anything- goes standards of the action-thriller conspiracy genre.
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40The French now proudly prove they can make a big stupid violent cop movie, just like our gifted Hollywood professionals.
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30Makes you gag.
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30Not even the strong, reflective, world-weary presence of Reno or Cassel's energy can make a dent in a movie in which suspense and tension dissipate quickly, with action sequences not spectacular enough to compensate. All that's left is gratuitous gore.
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30Any cassette of "Millennium" would serve up better thrills and chills.
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