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

| 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

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

| May 20, 2003

Convincing and heartbreakingly tragic.

| 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

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: C | Sep 28, 1994