| 83 |
Portland Oregonian
Director Stephen Elliott has acquitted himself admirably in creating this serious thriller.
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| 63 |
Chicago Tribune
Tries to blend old film noir and new high-tech thriller styles with only sporadic impact.
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| 50 |
New York Post
Watchable even when what's going on makes no sense whatsoever.
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| 50 |
Rolling Stone
Elliot fails to make the needed connection between the audience and a peeper who has lost his moral balance.
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| 50 |
TV Guide
As meticulously deranged as its paranoid protagonist.
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| 50 |
Boston Globe
Never brings its potentially intriguing plot strands into focus.
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| 50 |
New York Daily News
Truly weird and unworkable thriller.
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| 50 |
USA Today
Far from being a run-of-the-mill slasher pic.
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| 40 |
Film.com
Not terribly enjoyable to watch.
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| 40 |
Village Voice
High-buffed, low-rack pulp.
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| 38 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
So stupid, so stupefying, so stupendously bad.
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| 31 |
Mr. Showbiz
Flows like day-old cement.
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| 30 |
Austin Chronicle
Sitting through the film was an exercise in confusion.
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| 30 |
Chicago Reader
One very sick and messed-up movie.
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| 30 |
Variety
Deborah Young
A mixed-genre detective pic, thriller and love story that shifts gears too often and doesn't know when to end.
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| 25 |
Baltimore Sun
A hackneyed psycho-sexual thriller with enough awkwardly executed Hitchcock references to qualify as a bad DePalma knock-off.
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| 25 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Attempts to convey emotional dislocation and passion at the same time. All we get is distance.
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| 25 |
Entertainment Weekly
There's not much else for viewers to do but give themselves over to the whims of the bad-movie gods.
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| 25 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
A perfect example of form without content.
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| 20 |
The New York Times
Impenetrable mess of a movie.
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| 20 |
Film.com
Self-conscious clunker.
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| 20 |
Los Angeles Times
Eric Harrison
It isn't insultingly bad; it's just incompetent.
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| 20 |
LA Weekly
Intriguing for a while, then steadily more confusing and finally just incoherent.
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| 12 |
San Francisco Examiner
The single worst movie David Lynch never made.
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| 10 |
Newsweek
Hilariously incompetent.
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| 0 |
Miami Herald
Pretentious, perplexing and plain rock-dumb movie.
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