The film does little to establish a different sense of place. The repeated imagery is to show the skyline of the city off in the distance, as if it were a mystic Emerald City, unattainable to these characters.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 25, 2022

The film seems overextended and unbelievable both as love story and as urban tragedy.

| Jun 4, 2018

Uncertain but uplifting.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 4, 2018

Quite convincing and gripping.

| Jun 4, 2018

Mostly though, [McHenry] just goes through the motions of moviemaking, pandering the audience with hot sex and brutal violence while playing with recurring bus imagery that goes nowhere.

| Jun 4, 2018

| Original Score: C | Sep 7, 2011

Stumbles into a lame love story and ends in a conventional shootout and bloodbath.

| Jun 23, 2008

McHenry's control of the nicely unsentimental tone is pretty assured, while there's a bonus in the soundtrack which mixes bluesy electric guitar and soul standards.

| Jun 24, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 18, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 18, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 12, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 20, 2003

A muddled film that takes a standard urban action movie and adds a veneer of overwrought romance.

| May 20, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 4, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 25, 2002

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 10, 2001

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Convincing and heartbreakingly tragic.

| Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: 81/100 | Jan 1, 2000

It's not some little plot-bound genre formula. It's invigorating, how much confidence it has, and how much space it allows itself.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000