Well acted, but it doesn't enrich its metaphor beyond giving an old story a sour contemporary resonance.
50
Village VoiceMark Holcomb
Village VoiceMark Holcomb
An engagingly grim psychological thriller.
50
Chicago ReaderLisa Alspector
Chicago ReaderLisa Alspector
This watchable 1998 psychothriller deflects its cliches with canted angles, metonymic cropping, and a creeping pace, making it as much a parsing of "Twilight Zone"-brand irony as an example of it.
50
San Francisco ExaminerWalter Addiego
San Francisco ExaminerWalter Addiego
A weakly performed rehash of master-slave role-reversal tales.
25
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
Since there's no suspense whatsoever, we're simply stuck with awful people doing awful things to each other.
25
San Francisco ChronicleEdward Guthmann
San Francisco ChronicleEdward Guthmann
It's a bitter pill to swallow, featuring a quartet of unsympathetic characters and an unrelenting air of misanthropy.
20
L.A. WeeklyErnest Hardy
L.A. WeeklyErnest Hardy
Reiss guides the film with a firm hand, ratcheting up the tension and ably guiding his actors. It's his protagonists that undo the film, making it a chore to sit through.