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16 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75Rolling StonePeter TraversRolling StonePeter TraversIt's a perversely comic movie ride into the wild blue of crime and punishment.
- 70VarietyTodd McCarthyVarietyTodd McCarthyTartly written and vividly performed by a fine ensemble cast, Gary Fleder's bracingly entertaining first feature covers familiar ground in a fresh, breezy way.
- 63USA TodayMike ClarkUSA TodayMike ClarkColorful. [1 December 1995, p.D13]
- 63Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertOn balance, I think it's an interesting miss, but a movie you might enjoy if (a) you don't expect a masterpiece, and (b) you like the dialogue in Quentin Tarantino movies.
- 63ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliMore of a pretender than a contender in a field that includes superior entries like "Reservoir Dogs" and "The Usual Suspects."
- 50Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenAustin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenThe movie features a very cool soundtrack and more hip lingo than two ears can absorb. But, like the air in Denver, this movie is spread awfully thin.
- Largely vapid, borderline homophobic, and surprisingly treacly.
- 30Washington PostDesson ThomsonWashington PostDesson ThomsonAn overwrought gangster fable.
- 25San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleSan Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleHas that title going for it, which might annoy or provoke you. It makes me suspicious. It's the kind of flashy, meaningless title that's usually given to drab, pointless films.
- 25San Francisco ExaminerBarbara ShulgasserSan Francisco ExaminerBarbara ShulgasserThings to do in the movie theater until you mercifully die of boredom sums up this witness' response to the ordeal of sitting through this movie.