CRITICAL CONSENSUS

Colin Covert - startribune.com

Rob Blackwelder - SPLICEDwire

Michael Wilmington - Chicago Tribune

Ed Blank - Pittsburgh Live

A.O. Scott - NY Times

James Berardinelli - ReelViews

Guylaine Cadorette - Hollywood.com

Eric Harrison - Houston Chronicle

Ross Brooks - Citysearch

William Arnold - Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Margaret A. McGurk - Cincinnati Enquirer

John Anderson - Newsday

Sean O'Connell - filmcritic.com

Manohla Dargis - LA Times

Michael Rechtshaffen - Hollywood Reporter

DUELING CRITICS

"Ought not to be as much fun as it is, but it is....I left the theater grinning from ear to ear. Any police thriller that offers a chase scene involving a paddle boat earns a special place in my heart"

- Colin Covert

"[A] forced, ungainly vehicle that stalls each time it threatens to actually start...Poor old Hollywood, at least for the first hour, looks more like slo-mo town...There's scant evidence of any forward momentum, let alone a sense of pace"

- Michael Rechtshaffen