The characters are never more than skin-deep, but the events are more important, and director James Bridges builds the tension to an almost unbearable pitch.

| Nov 8, 2021

A tightly assembled didactic thriller.

| Mar 27, 2009

A moderately compelling thriller about the potential perils of nuclear energy, whose major fault is an overweening sense of its own self-importance.

| Mar 26, 2009

All a bit too earnest, despite the seriousness of the subject, with Fonda setting her jaw and stepping into father's footsteps as Tinseltown's very own protector of humanity; but it's tightly scripted and directed, and genuinely tense in places.

| Jun 24, 2006

A terrific thriller that incidentally raises the most unsettling questions about how safe nuclear power plants really are.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 23, 2004

The three stars are splendid, but maybe Miss Fonda is just a bit more than that. Her performance is not that of an actress in a star's role, but that of an actress creating a character that happens to be major within the film.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 20, 2003