Critic Reviews

Several varieties of creepy run through As Good as Dead, a gruesomely alluring tale of long-simmering revenge.

This taut but cliched little thriller is like "Wait Until Dark" with neo-Nazis.

A rote captivity drama with aspirations of sociopolitical relevance, As Good as Dead has nothing to say about torture or racism and little excitement to offer as compensation.

It's hardly worth slogging through a full hour of unexplained bondage and a so-bombastic-it-seems-sarcastic score, only to be rewarded with a plea for tolerance that's both insincere and inept.

A muddled script, spatially confounding direction and four thesps seemingly acting in four different movies are only a few of the problems with the misbegotten political thriller As Good as Dead.