Critic Reviews

Slick entertainment.

A tribute to old-fashioned craftsmanship and skill both on and off the screen, it's as crisp and efficient as its law enforcement protagonists, able to make the best of its traditional genre elements.

Both leads perform admirably.

A skeleton-thin thriller wrapped in glamorous production values.

Weaknesses are confirmed in the movie's laughable climax.

Washington and Jolie earn their stripes here, but more texture would have resulted, I think, in more terror.

Entertaining but terminally dopey.

Although the film disappoints in the final stretch (both the villain and his motive turn out to be very lame), it confidently thrills for most of its nearly two-hour length.

May be formulaic...but many good recipes are.

Quickly assumes the characteristics of a bad slasher movie.