| 100 |
San Francisco Chronicle
A first-rate thriller about arrogance at the top.
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| 90 |
Newsweek
Eastwood is at his effortless, slyboots best and the film is as preposterous as it is delightful.
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| 88 |
Chicago Sun-Times
A tight, taut thriller with a twist.
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| 80 |
Los Angeles Times
Sleek and satisfying....Almost a drawing room thriller, unhurried and genteel but enlivened with suspense and surprising bursts of sly, even biting, humor.
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| 75 |
San Francisco Examiner
Eastwood is perfect as the bad guy (a thief) you root for.
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| 75 |
ReelViews
A fairly routine thriller that gets high marks as a result of tight pacing and top-notch acting.
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| 70 |
Variety
Eastwood is in good, sly form, once again delighting in a character's splendid solitude and singular skill at what he does.
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| 70 |
Time
The warming, nicely played relationship of the burglar and his lawyer daughter (Laura Linney) is the source of the film's absolute power. [24 Feb 1997, p. 67]
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| 63 |
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
The content is eminently forgettable but the thing has definitely got style.
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| 60 |
Empire
A film that is entertaining but not seriously absorbing.
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| 60 |
The New Republic
Flies into the improbable at its big moments. [17 Mar 1997, p. 28]
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| 60 |
The New York Times
Eastwood directs a sensible-looking genre film with smooth expertise, but its plot is quietly berserk.
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| 50 |
Entertainment Weekly
Glum and depersonalized, as if Eastwood couldn't muster the energy to guide us through this maze of improbable twists. [14 Feb 1997, p. 39]
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| 50 |
TV Guide
An old man's movie, filled with regret over things lost, corrupted and spoiled.
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| 50 |
USA Today
Eastwood gutsily stages the extended opening slowly and methodically... [But u]nintentional yuks litter an otherwise somber political thriller adapted from David Baldacci's novel.
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| 40 |
Chicago Reader
A piece of cheese without much flavor.
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| 40 |
The Onion (A.V. Club)
John Krewson
A murky, often confusing story riddled with half-hearted performances, erratic characters, and too many cliched lines and situations.
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| 40 |
The New Yorker
Bruce Diones
A sombre, boring little thriller based on David Baldacci's ridiculous right-wing best-seller.
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| 20 |
Washington Post
Devolves into such utter ludicrousness, the best response (other than avoiding the thing in the first place) is to laugh.
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| 20 |
Washington Post
Promises to speed up the pacemakers of grumpy old Republicans with its ruthless indictment of the unzipped presidency.
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| 20 |
Salon.com
The embodiment of every conservative paranoid's slathering fantasies about Paula Jones, Vince Foster and Whitewater.
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