Critic Reviews
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New York Post
V. A. Musetto
The entire film is a feast for the eyes that brings to mind the work of Hong Kong ace Wong Kar-Wai.
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| 75 |
New York Daily News
Lee pushes this joyride into stimulation overdrive, playing with colors and film speeds and surfaces and shadows until it makes perfect sense that a movie should be all about energy, rather than -- well, about anything else at all.
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| 70 |
Los Angeles Times
For all his mastery of his medium, Lee is no less effective in directing actors than in creating images.
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| 63 |
Chicago Tribune
A flashy, splashy and violent chase thriller.
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| 63 |
USA Today
The script's clichés have nowhere to hide.
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| 60 |
Chicago Reader
Images about imagery can be diverting, even insightful, but this painterly 1999 feature piles up studies in elaborately choreographed motion that are their own reason for being.
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| 60 |
The New York Times
This crowd-pleasing spectacle is like a series of showstopper sequences from a musical without much attention paid to the story that is supposed to hold it all together.
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| 60 |
Salon.com
Lee can't tell a story to save his life, but he's something of a visual magician, laying out glittering piles of goodies that you instinctively want to follow.
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| 59 |
Mr. Showbiz
The first 15 minutes of Nowhere to Hide rock, and after that it's got nowhere to hide from its own excesses.
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| 58 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
The characters are uniformly repulsive, the cliche-ridden script builds no real tension or psychological interest, and the bottom line is that Lee's innovative but ultimately tedious and even ludicrous MTV-style visuals add absolutely nothing to the story dynamics.
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| 50 |
Christian Science Monitor
The action of this South Korean melodrama is fast and furious, but its emotions and ideas don't manage to keep up.
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| 50 |
TV Guide
With a little more plot, this could have been a killer.
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| 50 |
San Francisco Chronicle
A Korean film that takes an American genre and gets fancy with it.
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| 40 |
Village Voice
Lee's trickery is dazzling in flashes but also monotonously strenuous -- the derangement factor is high but there's little evidence of authentic lunacy.
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