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Critics Reviews Average Grade:   C-
Source Brief Review Grade*
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie
"Doesn't get the basics right but has some good moments." more... C+
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
"By the end, I wanted to do cruel and vicious things to the screenplay." more... D  
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
"...pretty entertaining." more... B-
Cincinnati Enquirer
Margaret A. McGurk
"The cast doesn't seem to care about the plot's weaknesses..." more... C-
E! Online "Basically, this is a bad film that tries to confuse you into thinking it's good." more... C-
filmcritic.com
Aaron Lazenby
"...a confusing, shoddy, and lame conspiracy thriller..." more... D+
Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
"There are twists and more twists until the story line resembles a pretzel. It's less a whodunit than a what-happened?" more... C+
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
"The storyline is MIA in this military thriller." more... D+
New York Post
Megan Lehmann
"...chases its tail for so long, it morphs from a whodunit into a who-cares." more... C  
New York Times
Elvis Mitchell
"...a spewing mess..." more... D-
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
"...a cheesy, fundamentally unsatisfying experience." more... C  
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
"...made up of remnants from other, better films..." more... C  
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
"...the plot twists, reversals, false accounts, unreliable narrators and conflicting testimonies...are just not worth revisiting." more... C  
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
"...insipid, overcooked and dull..." more... D  
USA Today
Mike Clark
"It all feels a little moldy." more... C  
* Yahoo! Movies converts each critic's published rating into a letter grade. If the critic's review does not include a rating, Yahoo! Movies assigns a grade based on an assessment of the review. (more...)
 
 


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